Men need to pay more attention to heart health than women
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Even though men tend to suffer from heart disorders at earlier ages than women, both genders need to pay equal attention to heart health. After menopause, the risk of heart disease faced by women shoots up and they need to be more careful about cardiac functioning.
To improve cardiac health, you should replace butter with margarine in your daily diet
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Butter may be bad for your heart, especially if you have high cholesterol, but margarine may sometimes contain high amounts of unhealthy trans fat which causes tremendous damage to heart health.
Cholesterol lowering medication does not reduce the risk of heart disease
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Drugs that lower cholesterol only reduce the production levels of cholesterol in the liver. However, it does not do away with the intake of cholesterol through various food items. It also has no impact on the risk of heart disease that you may have inherited genetically.
Which of the following is a sign of a heart attack?
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Apart from pain and discomfort in the chest, signs of a heart attack can manifest themselves as aches in many unusual parts of the body such as the jaw or the spine.
Which of the following foods you must avoid to prevent heart disease?
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Excess salt in your diet is known to spike up your blood pressure which can increase the risk of heart disease. Make sure that the meals you eat, whether home-cooked or processed, do not have high sodium content.
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