Healthy Heart Program

Every day 200 New Yorkers die of heart disease.
That’s 70,000 lives each year in New York City alone.

Don’t be a statistic.
Healthy people of all ages suffer from heart disease. Maintaining a heart-healthy lifestyle can help
you avoid the dangerous complications associated with
cardiovascular disease. Park East Cardiovascular has
a variety of strategies to manage your risk factors
for cardiovascular disease, to help you avoid
needing serious cardiac care.

Make a change – Be proactive – We
can help you with this.

  1. Eat Right
    • Help control HTN, cholesterol,
      obesity and stress
  2. Exercise 30 min, 5x per week
    • Help control obesity, stress,
      diabetes
  3. Quit smoking
  4. Reduce Stress
    • Get rest
    • Get exercise
    • Don’t eat and drink to excess
    • Sleep 8 hours a night
    • Set realistic goals
  5. Test for plaque buildup in your arteries
    • Stress test
    • Carotid Doppler
    • Coronary Calcium Score
  6. Medications can reduce risk of heart disease
    • Control cholesterol, BP, Diabetes
    • Aspirin for prevention in some people
    • Nutritional supplements
 
  • Heart disease is #1 cause of death for men and women
  • People who exercise have almost half the rate of heart attacks as those who are sedentary
  • 1 in 3 Americans suffers from some form of cardiovascular disease
 
 
  • More die of heart disease than the next five conditions combined (cancer, emphysema, accidents, diabetes, and flu/pneumonia)
  • 1/3 of all heart attacks occur below 75 years of age