Heart Health

Heart disease is common, but much of it can be prevented or managed. Knowing your numbers helps you and your care team catch problems early.

• Move your body most days — even a 10-minute walk counts.
• Choose more vegetables, fruits, beans, and whole grains.
• Use less salt and fewer fried or packaged foods.
• If you smoke, ask for help to quit — it is never too late.
• Take your medicines the same time each day.

• Call 911 for new chest pain, pressure, squeezing, tightness, or discomfort — especially with shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, weakness, or pain spreading to the arm, back, neck, jaw, or stomach.
• You are short of breath doing things that used to be easy.
• Your heartbeat feels very fast, slow, or uneven.