New Cardiovascular Prevention Guidelines

What do the new heart disease prevention guidelines mean? The public health impact of cardiovascular disease motivated the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology to release updated guidelines for the prevention of heart disease and stroke. The goal is to help Americans reduce risk and live longer healthier lives. The guidelines result…

Busy Woman’s Guide to Lower Blood Pressure: 7 Easy Tips

Doing your best to keep your blood pressure in check and it is still high? Try one (or more) of these secrets to bring it down: Drink water: You need 5 kitchen-sized glasses of water per day to keep your blood flowing correctly. Do you get enough? Too little water will raise your blood pressure.…

Busy Woman’s Guide to Blood Pressure

Here’s what you need to know about blood pressure: About one in every three Americans has high blood pressure. There are no symptoms and only just over half of the people with high blood pressure receive treatment. Often called the “silent killer,” uncontrolled high blood pressure can cause stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and kidney…

What about family history? Busy Woman’s Guide answers your questions

The men in my family all have heart disease and high blood pressure, but the women are all healthy. I’m safe, right? Sorry, I’m afraid not. Taking all other risk factors into account, if you have a close family member with heart disease, your risk nearly doubles. ALL family members, both male and female, factor…

Mammogram for Your Heart?

Yet another reason to schedule your mammogram! We all know mammograms can detect early breast cancer, but did you know it could also predict early heart disease? Along with detecting a lump, mammograms can also detect calcium deposits in the blood vessels of the breast, an indicator of early heart disease. Calcium deposits detected on…

Your Heart Yearns for Information

Don’t live in the dark! Find the truth about your personal heart disease risk by knowing your numbers — it is easy! Take charge of your health this year by getting a good picture of your current health.  Knowing your numbers: Take the Go Red Heart CheckUp and feel great in 2008! Share your thoughts…

Shaken, not deterred

I was shaken up today. Most days I don’t think about the fact I almost died. It’s not like I pretend it didn’t happen, but in order to live my life the way I want, with passion and zest, I choose not to dwell on it. Yet, when my blood pressure was 140/90 today, I…