Northside Hospital To Host Free Heart Disease Screening

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Holly Springs, GA -- Northside Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Institute is offering a free screening to determine risk for heart and blood vessel, or cardiovascular, disease.

Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer of Americans, according to the American Heart Association. A range of factors can raise your risk of developing CVD and having a heart attack or stroke. The more factors you have, the greater your risk.

It is essential that residents measure their risk for this disease and make a plan for how they can prevent it. To help in this endeavor, a free screening will be held next month at Northside Hospital’s Holly Springs medical office building.

The screening will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 23 at Northside/Holly Springs Imaging, which is located at 684 Sixes Road Suite 100. Free parking will be available.

The regular screening will be administered by health care professionals and will include, risk assessment, blood pressure reading, total cholesterol (HDL, ratio of TC/HDL) and glucose testing, body mass index analysis and a one-on-one consultation with a healthcare professional.

The screening is free, but registration is required. Call 404-851-6550 to schedule an appointment.

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