Heart Disease: What's your risk?

Learn YOUR Risk!
By age 20, you should know your risk factors. The important risk factors you can control or treat include:
smoking
high blood pressure
high blood cholesterol
diabetes
being overweight or obese
physical inactivity
It’s essential that you measure your risk of heart disease and make a plan for how to prevent it in the near future. The Risk Assessment Tool is for people age 20 or older who do not already have heart disease or diabetes.
Click here for the Heart Attack/Coronary Heart Disease Risk Assessment Tool from the American Heart Association.
This tool will help you assess your risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease in the next 10 years. It will also check to see if you may have metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that greatly increase your chances of developing cardiovascular disease, including stroke and diabetes.

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Inflammation: How it relates to 'Western' Diseases

Inflammation is the body's basic response to injury. Conditions that have 'itis' and 'osis' at the end of their names are all some form of inflammation. Inflammation is a process in which white blood cells and chemicals protect the body from infection, and repair injury. More and more research is also finding a significant link between inflammation and a host of seemingly unrelated diseases that have begun to be epidemic in Western cultures, such as asthma, diabetes, obesity, depression, heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, and other aging diseases.

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