1. Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
Do you know someone who has been a victim of a heart attack or stroke?
See Video 1 - Watch your own heart attack.

2. Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) – any disease that affects the heart or blood vessels.
See Video 2 – See Video 3
Biggest killer among older adults.
Affects more than 80 million, over 1 million die annually from CVD disorders.
Largest economic cost amount diseases, $444 billion in 2010 (both health care costs and loss of wages).

3. Most Common CVDs Most Common CVDs Stroke - See Video 4
Arteriosclerosis & Atherosclerosis (see book pg. 52)
Coronary Heart Disease & Heart Attack
Stroke - See Video 4
Hypertension (high blood pressure) See Video 5

4. Risk Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease.
Smoking
2Xs as likely to develop CHD.
Increases risk in CVD.
There’s Hope! 10 years after quitting return to nonsmokers level.
Hypertension (Disease as well as a risk factor)
Diet high in sodium
High Blood Cholesterol Levels (page 57)
“bad cholesterol” LDL (below 100 is optimal)
“good cholesterol” HDL (above 60 is optimal) – carries cholesterol away from arteries and back to the liver.
See Doc 1, do we really know about cholesterol?
See Figure 6 (page 55) combining risk factors.

5. More Risk Factors Physical Inactivity Diabetes Obesity and Overweight
75% of all individuals with diabetes die from some form of CHD.
Obesity and Overweight
Heredity
Gender
Increased Age
Stress
Alcohol Consumption
Diet and Nutrition

6. How Can You Reduce Your Risk of CHD.
Don’t Smoke
Reduce Your Stress
Lower Your Blood Pressure
Reduce Blood Cholesterol Levels
Be Physically Active