Good News About Heart Disease

Item from 'Breakthroughs In Health' Vol. 1 Issue 2 - Take Control and You Can Fight Heart Disease
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'Enormous advances have been made during the past several decades in the treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including minimally invasive procedures that can unblock clogged arteries and even cure certain heart rhythm disturbances. We also now have imaging techniques rivaling machines that once existed only in science fiction that allow us to see remarkable detailed views of the vascular system.
Despite this high-tech progress........This year, an estimated 700,000 Americans will have a new heart attack and about 500,000 will have a recurrent one. More than 160,000 Americans die suddenly of cardiac arrest annually- and about two-thirds of them are unaware they had heart disease......The AHA advises physicians to routinely evaluate the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients as young as 20........
You can take control of a host of risk factors, including high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, dietary factors, obesity and physical inactivity. How? With what we call TLC or Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes. TLC involves consciously making healthy choices and actively taking control of your health....Three steps to achieving cardiovascular risk reduction through TLC - knowledge, behavioral change and maintaining behavioral change.'

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