Health Tip: After a Heart Attack
(HealthDay News) -- After a heart attack, it's important to reduce or eliminate risk factors for a subsequent attack.
The American Academy of Family Physicians says these factors increase your risk of another heart attack:
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Getting insufficient exercise.
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Having high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
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Being too stressed.
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Being overweight.
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Having high blood sugar, if you're diabetic.
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Being a smoker.
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Drinking too much alcohol.
Online Medical Reviewer:
Sylvia Byrd, RN, BSN, MBA
Online Medical Reviewer:
Daphne Pierce-Smith, RN, MSN, FNP, CCRC
Last Annual Review Date:
1/9/2009