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What preventive measures are the best to take to avoid cardiovascular disease?

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Lifestyle changes: Modify your risk factors for cardiovascular disease by making adjustments to your lifestyle. The four risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease are smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Controlling these well with medications or lifestyle changes are the best preventive measure you can take. Regular exercise is also helpful!

Answered 5/18/2014

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

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Atherosclerosis: Depends on one's personal risk and modifying them. Smoking, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipemia, diabetes , family history. Heart attack: simply, one blocks the feeding artery to part of the heart muscle and low flow, or no flow causes ischemia which cause death of the heart cells, which is a heart attack! myocardial infarction is the medical term.Ekg and lab tests show the damage.

Answered 12/10/2013

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Atherosclerosis: Depends on one's personal risk and modifying them. Smoking, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipemia, diabetes , family history. Heart attack: simply, one blocks the feeding artery to part of the heart muscle and low flow, or no flow causes ischemia which cause death of the heart cells, which is a heart attack! myocardial infarction is the medical term.Ekg and lab tests show the damage.

Answered 12/10/2013

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Several: #1. Don't smoke #2. Control your blood pressure #3. Control your diabetes #4. Regular exercise #5. Control your weight #6. Normalize cholesterol levels #7. Take Aspirin daily (consult with your doctor first).

Answered 6/24/2014

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