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Prevention
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Once, heart disease was thought to be a relentlessly progressive condition. Now, we know that not only can we prevent heart disease; we can arrest or even reverse it. Heart diseases affect more than 64 million Americans and costs $368 billion each year. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and women in the US. CVD claims more lives each year than the next 5 leading causes of death combined, which are cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, diabetes, and pneumonia.
The aging of the population along with an increase in unattended risk factors in the younger generations will continue to fuel the cardiovascular epidemic for years to come. You can affect your health and improve the quality of your life as you age by adopting healthy habits, avoiding bad ones, and getting appropriate screenings.
The entire staff of the John Muir Health Cardiac Team is dedicated to teaching you the skills you will need in pursuit of a healthy life.
Minimizing the Risk Factors- Smoking
- Lipids
- Blood Pressure
- Diabetes Screenings
- Exercise
- Diet and Nutrition
- Stress
- Homocysteine, C-reactive protein and other emerging risk factors