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Community Leading a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle H 1 Tips, services and screenings to help you get-and stay-heart healthy eart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans. By adopting a healthy lifestyle and eliminating certain risk factors, such as smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, and lack of physical activity, you can reduce your risk of developing heart disease. To help you get started, UNC Hospitals, Rex Healthcare, and North Carolina Heart & Vascular offer a number of resources. Kick the Habit Smokers are two to four times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers, but people who quit smoking can decrease their risk by 50 percent after just one year. UNC Hospitals, Rex Healthcare, and select North Carolina Heart & Vascular clinics offer smoking cessation programs to introduce patients to a smoke-free lifestyle and help them kick the habit. 2 Have It Checked High blood pressure, also called hypertension, makes the heart work harder because it must pump with more force and the arteries must carry blood that is moving under greater pressure. Most people with high blood pressure have no warning signs, so it is important to get your blood pressure checked. The Hypertension Clinic at the UNC Center for Heart and Vascular Care specializes in difficult-to-treat hypertension. If you have hypertension that has not responded to treatment, the Hypertension Clinic may be able to help. 3 Reducing the amount of "bad" fat in your diet and increasing the amount of "good" fat are important components to reducing your cholesterol level and your risk of heart disease."Bad" fats include saturated and trans fats typically found in baked goods, fried foods, whole-fat dairy products and certain meats. "Good" fats include monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats found in fish, nuts, seeds and certain vegetable oils. It is important to remember that fat is fat, so even when eating "good" fat, eat in moderation. 4 Winter 2014 Well PhoTo: PhoToshoT Balance It Out

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Well - Winter 2014

Well - Winter 2014
Contents
UNC Health Care News
Community
Maryam’s Journey
Simple Diagnosis— Complicated Solution
Teamwork Guides UNC’s Cardiovascular
When Wounds Won’t Heal
Nutrition
Resources

Well - Winter 2014