Heart Diseases

If you're care most people, you think that heart illness is a problem for other folks. But heart disease is the number one killer in the U.S. It is also a major cause of disability. There are many unlike forms of heart disease. The most common cause of heart illness is narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries, the blood vessels that furnish blood to the heart itself. This is cried coronary artery disease and happens slowly over time. It's the major conclude people have heart attacks.

Other kinds of heart troubles may happen to the valves in the heart, or the heart may not pump well and cause heart failure. Some people are born with heart illness.

You can help reduce your risk of heart illness by taking steps to control factors that put you at greater risk:

• Assure your blood pressure

• Lower your cholesterol

• Don't smoke

• Get enough exercise

NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute