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To improve heart health, it’s important to reduce your intake of this harmful substance found in tobacco and vaping products.
What is Nicotine?
Physical activity has been shown to help lower the risk of this event, which occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked.
What is a Stroke?
You should sit calmly for this amount of time before taking your blood pressure to ensure an accurate reading.
What is 5 Minutes?
This condition, often associated with high blood sugar levels, can significantly increase your risk for hypertension.
What is Diabetes?
Regular exercise can help reduce this condition, which is characterized by high force of blood against artery walls.
What is High Blood Pressure?
This irregular heartbeat condition, which causes blood clots, is a major risk factor for stroke.
What is Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)?
Lowering your intake of these substances can reduce your risk for stroke, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
What are Sodium, Saturated Fat, and Trans Fat?
Nicotine and this harmful gas both contribute to raising your heart rate and blood pressure when smoking.
What is carbon monoxide?
Women may experience this type of pain, often less associated with heart attacks, during a heart attack.
What is Back or Jaw Pain?
To lower your heart attack risk, you should keep your fasting blood sugar below this level.
What is 100 mg/dL?
Chronic stress can lead to this condition, which is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
What is high blood pressure?
This is what happens to your risk of heart disease and stroke once you quit smoking, no matter how long or how much you've smoked.
What is it decreases?
These are fats found in your blood that your body uses for energy. Elevated levels can increase your risk for heart disease.
What are Triglycerides?
Lowering this fat-like substance in your blood can help reduce your stroke risk. Ideal total levels are around 150 mg/dL
What is Cholesterol?
This organ is primarily affected by nicotine, leading to conditions like heart disease and stroke.
What is the heart?
Talking while measuring your blood pressure can increase this amount in millimeters of mercury (mmHg).
What is 10–15 mmHg?
If you put the cuff over clothing instead of on bare skin, it can add this much to your reading.
What is 10–40 mmHg?
Obesity can lead to the enlargement of this part of the heart, which increases the risk of both stroke and heart disease.
What is the left ventricle (left ventricular hypertrophy)?
Reducing your intake of this substance to under 1,500 mg per day can help lower your blood pressure.
What is Sodium (Salt)?
This eating plan is designed to support overall heart health and help lower high blood pressure and LDL cholesterol.
What is DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension)?
Crossing your legs or having your legs unsupported while measuring your blood pressure can add this much to your reading.
What is 5–10 mmHg?
This condition, in which blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked by fatty plaque buildup, is one of the most common causes of heart failure.
What is Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)?
This type of fat in your blood is associated with higher cholesterol levels and can increase your stroke risk.
What is Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL-C)?
These three factors, when present in a person, significantly increase their risk for stroke.
What are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking?
Keeping your arm unsupported during a blood pressure measurement can raise the reading by this amount.
What is 10 mmHg?