There’s no one cause for heart disease. However, there are risk factors that increase your chance of developing it. The more risk factors you have, the more likely you are to develop heart disease. More than two-thirds of Australian adults have three or more risk factors for heart disease. Yet many people don’t know they’re at risk.
Preventing heart disease starts with knowing your risk factors and making positive lifestyle changes to lower your risk. Most heart attacks and strokes can be prevented with healthy choices. This can include eating a heart-healthy diet, being active and smoke-free.
Understand your risks
Lifestyle factors such as smoking, having an unhealthy diet, being inactive, having an unhealthy weight and your alcohol consumption.
Health conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and mental health factors such as stress or social isolation.
Other risk factors that you cannot control such as a family history or heart disease, your ethnic background, female specific factors and social environment.
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