Heart Health

20s and 30s

• Know your family history. Know who in your family has experienced heart disease
  and talk to your doctor about how your family history may affect your own risk profile.
  
  
• Take stock of your health habits.
  The eating and exercise habits you learned growing up can be either a boon or a
  burden to you.
  
  
• Don’t smoke. If you don’t smoke, congratulations! If you do smoke, stop now.
  Of all the things you can do to protect your heart, smoking cessation is perhaps the
  most beneficial.
  
  
• Develop healthy eating and exercise habits. Learn how to eat and exercise in a way that supports your heart health now
  and in the future.

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Heart Attack and Cardiac
Arrest Warning Signs

Act in Time

The American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute have launched a new “Act in Time” campaign to increase people’s awareness of heart attack and the importance of calling 9-1-1 immediately at the onset of heart attack symptoms.

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