Put Your Heart Into It: Cardiovascular Disease Awareness and Prevention

Long before COVID-19, Cardiovascular disease reigned supreme as the number one cause of death worldwide (this is still the case). This pandemic has killed millions on a global scale year-after-year (18.6 million in 2019 alone), but headlines detailing the devastation are few and far between. This week, the Health In Harlem team sat down to discuss different types of heart disease and its relation to other vascular diseases and the risk factors that lead to their development. Finally, we shift to the empowering part of our program and talk about the things you can do to significantly lower your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Please folks be safe and keep your bodies' moving as that alone can help reduce your risk for heart disease.  Please check out the links below to learn more.   American Heart Association: American Heart Month https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/education-and-awareness/heart-month Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Heart Disease: It can Happen at Any Age https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/any_age.htm MedLine Plus: How to Prevent Heart Disease https://medlineplus.gov/howtopreventheartdisease.html