Answer the following questions to assess your heart risk factors:
- Do you reguarly eat unhealthy food (eg, those high in saturated fat and salt)?
- Do you smoke?
- Are you a male over 45 or a female over 55?
- Do you have diabetes?
- Have you had heart problems or a stroke before?
- Do you have high blood pressure?
- Do you have high cholesterol?
- Is your waist >100 cm or >39 inches (male) or >90 cm or >35 inches (female)?
- Do you spend less than 30 minutes a day being physically active?
- Has anyone in your family (eg, a parent or sibling) had a heart attack or stroke (before the age of 65 for women or 55 for men)?
The more times you answered 'Yes', the more risk factors you have for heart disease
Lucky for me, most of the answer is 'No'. What about you?
What is a heart attack?
A heart attack (myocardial infarction) occurs when blood supply to part of the organ is blocked. Blockage usually results from two processes: the development over many years of fatty build-up (plaques) in the walls of the arteries and the formation of a clot on a plaque.
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