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Lowering Your Risk for Heart Disease

Heart disease is the number one health issue in our community. What makes this condition especially dangerous is that the two leading risk factors - hypertension and high cholesterol - are known as the "silent killers" because they don't necessarily cause any noticeable symptoms.  Learn how these two risk factors affect your health from internal medicine specialist Ling Xu, M.D.  Free.

Learn what your numbers are with a free blood pressure and cholesterol screening from 6-6:30 p.m. (limited to supply/time, first come, first serve)

To register for the class, call 1-888-445-8433 or go to www.edenmedcenter.org to register on-line.

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