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Cardiovascular Disease Resources |
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Do you know how these controllable risk factors affect
your risk of heart disease, stroke and metabolic syndrome?
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Smoking
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High blood pressure
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High blood cholesterol
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Diabetes
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Being overweight or obese
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Physical inactivity
Measuring your risk of heart disease and making a plan for how to prevent it in
the near future is essential for long-term health and wellness. Visit the
American Heart Association’s website for tools to help you assess your risk of
having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease in the next 10
years. The site includes an assessment that checks to see if you may have
metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that greatly increase your chances
of developing cardiovascular disease , including stroke and diabetes.
Click the link below to take the American Heart
Association’s free Risk Assessment
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3003499
View other Cardiovascular Disease Resources at the
following links:
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