Dr. Shabbir: Tools support discussions to ensure patients understand their risk.
Healthy Living
How to Prevent Heart Disease
Healthy habits throughout life – eating better, moving more, maintaining a healthy weight, and not smoking – are important steps to prevent heart disease. You also need to keep an eye on factors that make heart disease more likely. These include diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Use this resource to learn what steps you can take to protect your heart.
Get Vaccinated
Staying up to date with your vaccines is an important part of healthy living – especially if you have heart disease.
Having heart disease makes you more likely to become seriously ill from infections such as influenza (the flu), COVID, and pneumonia. Protect your heart with healthy habits, such as eating well, being active, not smoking, getting good sleep, taking your heart medicines – and getting vaccinated! Learn more:
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Helping patients with AFib and high stroke risk find the right treatment -
Shared decisions start with listening to patients instead of talking at them Drew Mendoza, chief cardiology fellow at Erlanger Heart and Lung Institute in Chattanooga, TN, shares insights from using a CardioSmart decision aid with a 72-year-old woman with severe aortic stenosis.
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2021 Guideline for Coronary Artery Revascularization Here are key points for patients about new recommendations to restore blood flow to the heart.
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New Guidelines for Evaluating, Diagnosing, and Treating Chest Pain in Adults For the first time, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have released a comprehensive guideline for the evaluation of chest pain.