Key recommendations in the 2019 Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease guideline from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) focus on adopting heart healthy habits, such as a heart healthy eating plan, getting more exercise, avoiding tobacco and managing known risk factors. It is also recommended that aspirin only rarely be used to help prevent heart attacks and stroke in people without known cardiovascular disease.
Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, co-chair of the 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and the Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine is quoted as saying that the new prevention guideline, “is intended to provide a roadmap of strategies that can be used and tailored to help people without a history of heart disease stay heart healthy and, importantly, emphasize the need to identify and address personal or social barriers for doing so (e.g., income and education levels, cost concerns, lack of health insurance, access to healthy foods or safe places to exercise, life stressors).”
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