Reduce Your Heart Disease Risk

Cardiovascular disease touches everyone. Almost all women (90 percent) have at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The good news is, 80 percent of heart disease is preventable.

Some heart disease risk factors--age, gender, family history, pregnancy-related cardiovascular issues, or a history of serious rheumatic conditions--can’t be controlled. Yet there are risk factors you can manage by working with your doctor and making lifestyle changes.

Beat the odds by understanding and managing your heart disease risk. Modifiable risk factors are:

• Smoking
• High blood pressure
• Obesity
• Physically activity
• Diabetes or metabolic syndrome
• High cholesterol

Early detection and prevention are crucial in the fight against heart disease. Speak with your health care provider about what you can do to stay heart healthy at every age. It’s never too early or too late to start.

Tools to Fight Heart Disease Risk

To help you get started, join us next Wednesday for a Katz Institute for Women’s Health wellness event. Our experts will cover topics including:

• Heart disease prevention in your 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond
• The latest advances in heart disease treatment
• Recognizing the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and what to do in a heart emergency

You’ll also learn hands-only CPR, an easy technique that saves lives, according to the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross.

Set aside the evening of Wednesday, February 25, 7 to 9 p.m., to come to the Long Island Marriott at 101 James Doolittle Boulevard in Uniondale, NY 11553

The entry fee is $20 per person. Register with a friend to receive $5 off each with promo code HEART. Admission includes healthy food choices and refreshments and a chance to win a gift basket. Contact the Katz Institute for Women’s Health Resource Center with any questions.

This post was written by Stacey Ellyn Rosen, MD, vice president of women’s health for the Katz Institute for Women’s Health.

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