Medications
Exercise
Nutrition
Risk Factors
Know Your Numbers
100
This medication dialates the arteries during an episode of chest pain.
What is Nitroglycerin?
100

This form of exercise should be done everyday.

Aerobic exercise

100
Between fats, carbohydrates, and protein, which carries the most calories per ounce of food.
What is fat?
100

These little puffers that contain nicotine, greatly increase your risk for heart disease.

What are cigarettes?

100

This the goal for your total cholesterol number.

What is <200?

200

This medication thins the blood and absolutely essential after stent placement.

What is Aspirin, and/or Plavix

200

This form of exercise should be performed three to four days per week on non consecutive days.

What is resistance training. Other acceptable answers include weight/strength training, weights, elastic bands, etc.

200
This type of fat is the one we tell you not to eat?
What are trans fats?
200

This medical condition means your blood pressure is higher than recommended.

What is Hypertension?

200

This is how many minutes of aerobic exercise you should be getting every day (min 5 days a week)?

What is 30?

300
Which medication, class or name, is prescribed to enhance the funtion of the heart, as well as slow the heart rate.
What is a beta blocker, or specific name (atenolol, metropolol, coreg, etc)
300
Flexibility is a type of exercise used to preserve and increase the length of the tendons and __________.
What are muscles.
300
When you lower your intake of fat, cholesterol & salt. Along with limiting your caffeine intake. It is called what kind of diet?
What is heart healthy or cardiac diet?
300

This is a contributing risk for heart disease. It can make you a Type A or a "worry wart".

What is stress? (floods your system with fight or flight hormones)

300

This range of numbers is what your pulse should be at rest.

What is 60-100?

400

This type of medication works with the liver to reduce the bodies LDL, Triglycerides, and oquite often, to raise the HDL.

What is a statin, or specific drug name (Lipitor, Simvastatin etc.)

400
This type of exercise strengthens the heart, improves the function of the arteries, and recent studies show it can also reduce all cause mortality, defined as death by any reason, by about 45% in those over 60.
What is aerobic/cardiovascular exercise?
400
Adding this to your diet will help reduce your cholesterol numbers.
What is fiber?
400

These uncontrollable risk factors put you at risk but you can't do anything about them.

What is heredity, age & gender?

400

This is how much sodium or salt you should consume in a day?

What is 1500mg or less?

500
This class of medications reduces the amount of fluid inside of the viens and arteries, thus decreasing the workload on the heart.
What are diuretics, water pills, or a specific drug name (lasix, HCTZ, etc.)
500
This number is set for you to let you know your heart is getting a good work out without putting a strain on your heart.
What is Target Heart Rate?
500

This is the number of saturated fat grams you should not exceed in a day.

What is 20g?

500

This condition means you have an issue with regulating glucose & insulin. It increases your risk for cardiovascular issues.

What is Diabetes Mellitus?

500

This is the standard dose of a Baby Aspirin that most cardiac patients take each day?

What is 81mg?

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