Living Healthy

Many factors beyond your control can contribute to cardiovascular disease, such as your age, sex, or family history. But there are also cardiovascular disease risk factors that you can control, such as tobacco use, high cholesterol and blood pressure, diet, obesity, exercise levels, and diabetes. We have assembled a diverse and accomplished team of medical professionals whose members take a collaborative approach to diagnose your cardiovascular condition and treat it. Even with this team of experts, you are the most important member on your health care team because you can take so many steps to improve your heart health. We created these living healthy pages to provide resources to help you understand how your lifestyle affects heart disease and how you can make the changes necessary to live a healthier life. To learn how you can prevent future heart disease and to establish healthier lifestyle habits, visit the sections below:

• Diet and Nutrition
  Learn the importance of diet in controlling blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight.
• Exercise
  Exercise is an important component of getting and keeping your heart healthy. Not only does exercise help strengthen your heart and vascular system, it helps you control your weight and reduces stress.
• Family History
  
• Know Your Numbers
  Keep track of your numbers and see your doctor if any of your results are out of the normal range.
• Smoking
  Smoking contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease and quitting is one of the best things you can do for your heart and overall health. Learn how.
• Support Groups
  Cardiac events and cardiac procedures can affect you emotionally. Our support groups and educational programs can help you cope with your situation as well as learn about your condition so you can adopt healthy lifestyle habits.
• Stress Management
  The way you respond to stress can contribute to heart disease. Some people experience increased blood pressure during times of stress. Other people smoke more, consume too much alcohol or overeat. We can help you learn about stress reduction and coping.
• Take the Journey
  Achieve Heart & Vascular Wellness: Taking our commitment to advanced patient care a step further.
• Women's Health Screening
  This list of screenings can help you start on 12 months of healthy living. Start with a phone call to your doctor. He or she can recommend self-tests and set up the screening tests than can help you uncover health problems early, when they're most treatable.