Today’s Heart Health Challenges

Cardiac disease is the number one cause of death among adult Americans.  Cost estimates for health care and lost productivity for the disease range from $300 billion to $500 billion per year.  Simply being a man over age 45 or a woman who has gone through menopause makes one more likely to suffer from coronary artery disease, as do a host of other risk factors such as a family history of cardiac disease, high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels, diabetes, obesity, cigarette smoking, sedentary lifestyle and stress.

Medical treatment of heart disease has made tremendous life saving advances over the past five decades.  Unfortunately, further progress is often constrained by significant behavioral challenges. Despite facing the ultimate consequence of life or death, far too many people fail to adopt necessary heart healthy behaviors beyond the initial period following a cardiac event.  Evidence indicates that only 1 in 10 heart patients adopt healthy lifestyle changes over an extended period of time.  Consequently, the key element of fighting heart disease, a focused patient assuming personal responsibilities on a daily basis to live a healthier life, is too often overwhelmed by their change requirements, and they then return to the habits which originally contributed to their medical condition. How to build and maintain the necessary behavioral changes needed to adopt heart healthy lifestyles remains unresolved until now. Join Healthy Hearts for life to revolutionize the way you care for you heart, your health, and your life!