Lifestyle choices and other diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes can impact your risk of heart disease. In this video, Samin Sharma, MD, a cardiologist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, discusses ways of preventing heart disease.
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Some of the heart disease occurs because of infection, because of age, you can't have control on them, but the coronary artery disease, type of heart disease, is largely preventable because it is caused by various risk factors which can be prevented, like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stress, sedentary lifestyle, so if you take care of those risk factors chances that you'll develop the coronary artery disease is less or maybe negligible.
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