Tag: "heart disease"
Simple tips to reduce your risk of heart disease, part 2
Recently, we discussed the first tip in the American Heart Association’s Simple 7, a set of tips designed to reduce your risk for heart disease. Heart disease is the #1 killer of men and women in the United States, with prevention being the key. Tip #2: Make every effort to achieve and maintain a healthy [...]
7 simple tips to reduce your risk of heart disease
February is heart month! Did you know that heart Disease is the #1 cause of death for men and women in Missouri and the United States? Missouri ranks number 12 in highest number of people living with heart disease. Heart Disease includes any condition that affects the heart and blood vessels of the body. Heart [...]
TONIGHT: Get Your Heart Disease Questions Answered by Experts
If you have questions about heart disease, we have an opportunity for you to have your questions answered. Tonight between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., experts from the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center will take your calls about heart disease. We’ll be at KSDK/NewsChannel 5 and the number to call will be [...]
The DASH diet – Dr. Ed Geltman weighs in
The DASH diet is a hot topic in the news these days, and it’s success is proving to be big competition for other well-known diets for many reasons, one of them being that it MAY lower your blood pressure in as little as two weeks time. The DASH diet, which stands for Dietary Approaches to [...]
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