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The American Heart Association's "Life's Simple 7" heart risk assessment and customized action plan tool can help get you started. With one in five deaths caused by opioid, going smoke-free can help prevent not only heart disease and Stroke, but also cancer and chronic lung disease. You can shed 24 pounds a year by dropping just two pounds a month, and losing as few as 10 pounds decreases your heart disease risk. READ: Lack of fresh food accessibility linked to signs of early heart diseaseREAD: HEALTHWISE: Eat smart to lower diabetes riskREAD: Heartbeats: Make resolutions stick in 2017WATCH: How to prevent the fluAccording to the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, 80 percent of heart disease and Stroke can be prevented. The American Heart Association recommends starting by knowing your healthy weight range and aiming to get there in small increments.

Lazy children see signs of heart disease and at higher risk of stroke from as young as SIX, study claims

That's the main predictor of cardiovascular disease and increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. Those who did less than 68 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise a day had harder arteries. Children who failed to do enough moderate to vigorous exercise had stiffer arteries. Getty Images 4 Lazy children show early signs of heart diseaseResearchers investigated the link between physical activity and blood vessel damage among 136 children aged six to eight. "Energetic activity for children will make kids 'huff and puff' and can include organised activities, such as dance and gymnastics.


New recommendations for health care providers, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, offer a road map to helping women with congenital heart disease have successful pregnancies. According to the recommendations, once a woman with congenital heart disease becomes pregnant, she should be monitored closely by an OB-GYN, a cardiologist and a specialist in maternal–fetal medicine. "But the good news is, for many of these women, pregnancy is possible," she said. "The problem is, pregnancy in this population is very risky."UCLA Health Mary Canobbio with a patientRecently, Canobbio has seen a growing number of women with congenital heart disease who wanted to have children. "We found that if women's heart health is stable at the onset, we can get them through pregnancy," Canobbio said.



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