Additional Risk of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

  Last week we looked at 3 things that affect your risk for coronary artery disease (CAD): blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. This week we will discuss 3 more things that can affect your risk, weight management, smoking, and cardiovascular exercise....

Coronary Artery Disease

   Blocked Artery Last week, we covered the key facts of the heart and its main function, and we established that heart disease is all the different things that can mess up the blood flow to the heart, the muscle of the heart, the valves, etc. So, let’s not spend time...

Let’s Talk About Heart Disease

  Heart Disease I wanted to do some education on heart disease for us today. So I stole some facts from the CDC website about heart disease to start off with: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups...