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Please provide advice on specific precautions to prevent heart diseases?
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Lifestyle changes: Must change modifiable risk factors. Decrease cholesterol, stop smoking, decreased psychosocial stressors, maintain normal bp, weight. Exercise, better diet with vegetables and fruit daily, less meat, treat diabetes and consult a physician for more in depth discussion. Avoid high alcohol intake too.
Answered 4/24/2013
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