Medications
This medication dilates the arteries coronary during an episode of chest pain.
What is Nitroglycerin?
This form of exercise focuses on repetitive movements of the large muscle groups, glutes and quads, which increases heart rate and blood pressure.
What is cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise.
Between fats, carbohydrates, and protein, this carries the most calories per gram
What is fat? (9 calories per gram)
These contain nicotine, toxic chemicals, and greatly increase your risk for cardiovascular disease and lung disease.
What are cigarettes?
These numbers are the goal for your total cholesterol and triglyceride levels
What is <200 (TC)and <150 (TRIG)?
These medications thin the blood and is absolutely essential after coronary stent placement.
What is Aspirin and/or Plavix, Brilinta, or Effient
This is the number of minutes per exercise session and number of days per week to complete cardiovascular exercise
What is 45-60 minutes, 4-6 days per week.
This type of fat is the one we tell you to avoid, found in processed foods
What are trans fats?
This medical condition means your blood pressure is higher than recommended. It is a modifiable, or controllable, risk factor for cardiovascular dx
What is Hypertension?
These numbers are goals for your LDL (bad) and HDL (good) cholesterol
What are <100 (LDL) and >40 (HDL)?
Which medication, class or name, is prescribed to lower heart rate and blood pressure
What is a beta blocker, or specific name (atenolol, metropolol, coreg, etc)
This is what you should NOT do if feeling ill, have a fever, significant muscle soreness, or if it's very hot/cold outside
What is cardiovascular exercise?
When you lower your intake of saturated fat, cholesterol & sodium along with limiting your caffeine and alcohol intake. It is called what kind of diet?
What is heart healthy diet?
This is another controllable (modifiable) risk factor for cardiovascular dx, and we must learn to control how we react to it...
What is stress?
This is considered a textbook "normal" blood pressure
What is 120/80?
This type of medication works with the liver to reduce cholesterol levels, specifically total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol
What is a statin (Lipitor, Atorvastatin, Simvastatin etc.)
This type of exercise strengthens the heart muscle, improves the function of the arteries, lowers BP, blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and helps relieve stress
What is aerobic/cardiovascular exercise?
Adding this to your diet will help rid the body of excess cholesterol
What is fiber?
These UNcontrollable risk factors put you at increased risk for developing heart disease
What is heredity, age, gender and race?
This is the amount of sodium is in a teaspoon of salt
What is 2400mg?
This class of medications reduces the amount of fluid inside of the veins and arteries, thus decreasing the workload on the heart.
What are diuretics, or "water pills" (lasix, HCTZ, Bumex etc.)
This number is the corresponding number on our chart to how much you feel you are exerting yourself
What is Rate of Perceived Exertion
This is the number of mg of sodium to limit ourselves to each day (less if history of congestive heart failure)
What is 2000mg?
This condition means you have an issue with regulating blood glucose & insulin. It increases your risk for cardiovascular disease
What is Diabetes? (measured by fasting glucose levels, hemoglobin a1c)
These terms are used to describe the top number and bottom number of your blood pressure
What are "systolic" (top) and "diastolic" (bottom)