General CAD
This change can reduce your risk of CAD by 50% within 1 year.
What is smoking cessation?
Made up of cholesterol deposits and other substances, this builds up in your arteries.
What is plaque?
AKA being a "couch potato".
What is physical inactivity/sedentary lifestyle?
This can be felt in the chest, jaw, neck, back, shoulder(s), and/or arm(s).
What is pain?
The medical term for a heart attack.
What is a myocardial infarction?
Heart disease is the number 1 killer of this population in the United States.
Who are women?
Medication category that is the first line of defense for elevated cholesterol.
What are statins?
This risk factor is seen when a BMI is 30.0 or higher.
What is obesity?
The medical term for chest pain.
What is angina?
People often describe chest pain associated with a heart attack as this animal sitting on their chest.
What is an elephant?
Medical diagnosis for the narrowing of arteries caused by plaque buildup.
What is atherosclerosis?
"Bad" cholesterol.
What is LDL (low-density lipoprotein)?
This is one risk factor that a person cannot impact, but if they have it, they should monitor for heart disease diligently and at an earlier age.
What is a family history of heart disease?
If you are running a marathon, it is normal to have this symptom of a heart attack.
What is shortness of breath?
Roughly 36% of hospitals in the US are equipped to perform this non-surgical procedure that is a mechanical means of treating a heart attack.
What is percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), formerly known as angioplasty with stent?
The percentage of all people in the US that have at least 1 of the 3 key risk factors for heart disease.
What is roughly half of all people (47%)?
The American Heart Association recommends all adults age 20 and older with low risk factors have their cholesterol check at this frequency.
What is every 4 to 6 years as long as the risk continues to stay low?
This one action can damage the heart and blood vessels, raise blood pressure, and reduce the amount of oxygen that your blood can carry.
What is tobacco use?
This symptom of CAD can be the first symptom of CAD that a person notices and can encompass all other symptoms.
What is a heart attack?
The frequency for which someone in the United States has a heart attack.
What is roughly every 40 seconds?
A program that should be offered after any significant cardiac event to help improve a person's quality of life and assist with reducing the risk of another event.
What is cardiac rehabilitation?
Yellowish growths on a person's skin that are made up of cholesterol-rich deposits and could indicate the person has high cholesterol levels.
What are xanthomas?
This has been labeled the "silent killer" because it usually has no symptoms but can typically be monitored in the home and controlled with oral medications.
What is high blood pressure?
This population can have atypical symptoms that can be mistaken for illnesses such as acid reflux or the flu causing delays in seeking treatment and increasing chances of catastrophic outcomes.
Who are women?
1 in 5 heart attacks are labeled with this term, meaning the damage occurred but the person was unaware.
What is a silent heart attack?