Preventing Heart Disease

Find additional information about how you can prevent heart disease:

Exercise: Learn how to add exercise into your daily life.  

Smoking: Learn how smoking affects your heart.  Find support to help you quit smoking.  

Nutrition: Learn how to develop a healthier diet to prevent heart disease.  

Stress Management: Learn how to prevent and manage negative stress in your life. 

Occupational Therapy (OT) Role: Learn how an occupational therapist can help manage heart disease or another chronic health condition.                           

Aging and the Heart

One study found that certain behaviors helped older adults to stay healthy.  These included being physically active, not smoking, drinking wine (for women), having more education, and having a smaller waist.  Other factors that helped adults to stay healthy were having high HDL (a form of cholesterol known as “good” cholesterol), not having diabetes, and having a lower blood pressure.

Read the full article HERE.

Burke, G.L., Arnold, A.M., Bild, D.E., Cushman, M., Fried, L.P., Newman, A., et al. (2001). Factors associated with healthy aging: The cardiovascular health study. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 49(3), 254-262.

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