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What Is a Heart Attack?
Heart Disease Factors
Signs of a Heart Attack
Heart Attack Signs in Diabetics
Heart Attack Response: Seek Help
Heart Attack Response: Take Aspirin
Heart Attack 911 Response
Negative Heart Attack Responses
Heart Attack Risk Factors
Preventing Heart Attacks
Misconceptions About Heart Attacks
Heart Attacks vs. Cardiac Arrest
Identifying Cardiac Arrest Victims
Importance of CPR Classes
Heart Attack Information Resources
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Summary: Common heart disease risk factors are age, excess body fat and high blood pressure. Find out more about common heart attack risks factors with expert tips from a certified emergency medical technician (EMT) in this free video on heart disease.
Michael Herbert is a certified emergency medical technician EMT with New Hanover County in Wilmington, NC. He has more than seven years experience as a firefighter and EMT. He is...read more
"Who gets heart attacks? And, in general you would think an elderly, overweight male who smokes, that suffers a heart attack, and collapses and dies. But, in actuality, any man, especially over the age of 40, any woman over the age of 50, and even younger and healthier people can suffer heart attacks. In general people who are sedentary, overweight, have a bad nutrition, and smoke, have a higher risk of suffering heart attack. Especially once they develop other medical problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. And the ones that have a family history of heart attacks. If, your mother and father, your grandfather and grandmother died early in life from a heart attack, that chances are that you're genetically predisposed to also suffer heart attack. In those situations, you need to follow up with your doctor and have annual physicals and discuss further the risk factors that are unique to yourself. There are great resources on-line, in the library, for you to do further research. Especially from the American Heart Association and medical journals and so on."
eHow Article: Heart Disease Factors
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