Heart Attack & Stroke Risk Factors

Check your risk for having a heart attack or stroke, then use the expert tips to reduce your risk.

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7 Ways to Protect Your Heart at Menopause
Women's risk for heart disease begins to rise after menopause, so it's a good time to make changes to stay off the fast track to heart disease. Get seven tips for success.
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Check Your Risk

• Reduce Your Heart Attack Risk
• What Problems Lurk in Your Family Tree?
• Free Heart-Health Checkup
• Will You Have a Heart Attack in 10 Years?
• 9 Hidden Risk Factors for Heart Disease

Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

• Atherosclerosis: The Enemy Within
• High Blood Pressure Risk Factors
• High Cholesterol Risk Factors
• Major Risks Linked to High Systolic Pressure

Smoking

• Help to Quit Smoking
• Smoking and Heart Disease

Alcohol

• Alcohol Benefits and Risks
• Alcohol: Helpful or Harmful?
• Women: Beware How Much You Drink

Weight

• 35-Inch Waistline Means High Risk for Heart Disease
• Obesity and Heart Disease

Family History

• What Health Problems Lurk in Your Family Tree?
• Tool to Chart Your Family's Heart Health
• Family History of Early Heart Attack
• Heart Disease: Can You Alter Your Fate?

Race

• African-American Women Take Note

Gender

• Increased Risks from Hormone Replacement Therapy
• What Every Woman Should Know About Heart Disease
• The Pill and Your Heart: What’s the Link?
• What Every Man Should Know About Heart Disease

Mental & Emotional Health

• Anger and Heart Attack
• Depression’s Impact on Heart Disease
• Manage Depression, Protect Your Heart

Other Risk Factors

• Diabetes and Heart Disease
• Dr. Mehmet Oz's Guide to Preventing a Heart Attack
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Heart Attack Signs and Symptoms You Shouldn't Ignore
• Poor Air Quality Linked to Heart Problems
• Protect Your Heart at Menopause
• Snoring and Heart Attack Risk
• Stroke Signs & Symptoms