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Helping You Get Heart-Healthy
At BayCare, we want to help you live a heart healthy lifestyle. Here are some great resources to learn more about heart and how to keep it healthy and some items to watch out for:
Living a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
Living a healthy lifestyle can lower your risk for heart disease! Nutrition, physical activity and managing emotional health are all key pieces to living a heart-healthy lifestyle. Below are more resources to help you understand how lifestyle impacts your heart’s health.
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Food and Your Heart
A healthy diet is one way to help impact or lower your risk for heart disease. Here are some more resources to help you learn more about how nutrition impacts heart health.
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Physical Activity and Your Heart
Physical activity and exercise are part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. Here’s some great information on exercise and your heart:
- Physical Activity and Your Heart How Exercise Improves Heart Health
- Get in the Zone: Target Heart Rate Zones
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Emotional and Mental Wellness
Our emotional and mental health can impact physical health! Here are a few helpful resources to manage stress:
Lifestyle and Heart Health
February 24, 2021
Dr. Kirksak Jay Poonkasem explains how your lifestyle influences and choices impact your heart health.
Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Understanding more about your risk factors for heart disease is an important part to helping you lower your risk. Here are some helpful resources:
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Understanding Risks
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All About Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls. The force is generated with each heartbeat as blood is pumped from the heart into the blood vessels. High blood pressure, or hypertension, directly increases the risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke. Learn more about blood pressure and its relationship with heart disease:
- High Blood Pressure
- More Than Just a Number: Blood Pressure and Heart Disease
- Do You Know the Effect of Your Blood Pressure Numbers
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Cholesterol and Heart Health
Cholesterol is a fat-like, waxy substance that can be found in all parts of your body. Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels is an essential part of good health. Learn more about its role and how it impacts your heart:
Heart Disease and Heart Attack
Heart disease is a general term referring to a variety of diseases and conditions that affect a person’s heart. Learn more about what heart disease actually is, and its relationship with a heart attack:
