Primary Prevention

Understand what types of risk factors you can control and the importance in knowing them so you and your healthcare team can make a plan to change them.

Understand the importance of working with your healthcare provider to identify and control your risk factors, in order to lower the risk of serious complications of vascular disease.

Learn how various lifestyle changes can help to lessen your vascular disease risk factors and improve your overall health.

Watch this to recognize the serious complications metabolic syndrome can cause, understand the parts of metabolic syndrome and what lifestyle changes you can make to help manage it.

The higher your blood cholesterol, the greater your risk for heart attack or stroke. That's why you need to know your cholesterol level. Read on to learn how to assess your health risks.

Some risk factors for heart disease are beyond your control. But others you can control, such as smoking and high blood pressure.

Watch this clip to learn about a blood pressure management plan and what can be included in it.

Watch this video to understand how healthy lifestyle changes can help lower blood pressure.

Watch this to know some tips and strategies for living with high blood pressure.

Watch this video to learn how lifestyle changes can help you manage your high blood pressure.

Learn how stress and high blood pressure are related.

Learn about some simple steps to controlling hypertension.

High blood pressure (hypertension) is called the silent killer. This is because many people who have it don't know it. You can take an easy test to see if your blood pressure is too high. If it is high, you can take steps to lower it. Doing so could save your life.

You can take your own blood pressure reading using a digital monitor. Follow these step-by-step directions.

High blood pressure is known as the "silent killer" because it often has no symptoms. Healthy changes can help you lower your blood pressure.

African Americans are at a higher risk for high blood pressure than other ethnic groups. Read on to learn why, and how making certain lifestyle changes can help lower blood pressure.

Learn to recognize important do's and don'ts for taking your cholesterol medicine safely.

Understand how folic acid can help you lower your risk of a heart attack.

Millions of American adults have cholesterol levels higher than the recommended range. Managing your cholesterol is critical to good health. Learn the difference between good and bad cholesterol, and how exercise and diet make a difference.

Watch this to learn about cholesterol and other risk factors for heart disease and ways you can reduce your risk.

High cholesterol can sometimes be treated with a change in diet or increased exercise. Find out what can make a difference.

Making changes to diet and increasing exercise doesn't always lower high cholesterol, doctors often add medications to help reach the goal. Find out about the different options available.

High cholesterol is called hypercholesterolemia. Cholesterol and dietary fat are not the same thing. It's important to understand how the fat in your diet affects your cholesterol levels.