Yes, I would adopt a heart healthy lifestyle. I did the heart360 website had informed me that I was prehypertension. After getting the results really made me consider making improvements due to my son having hypertension and me being prehypertension. Learning from the website taught me that women are more likely to have a heart attack than men due to having less concern of the heart symptoms(Heart360). Meanwhile, Friday morning I had been putting off having chest pains all Friday. Saturday learning from the website that I really needed to go get check out about my heart symptoms, even if there were no true concerns about my heart. If the pressure in my chest was a true heart attack it was no need to holding off the issues. Saturday afternoon I had decide to go to the Emergency Room and learned that I was not …show more content…
The physician at the Emergency room had informed me to start healthy eating to lower my blood pressure and my cholesterol levels. With me already having high cholesterol levels is potential to having a heart attack. Establishing a heart healthy lifestyle is very important to me. Once the arteries of the heart are slow down due to the fat build up its no turning back from a heart attack. Taking short walks acknowledging that I only have one life to live it's time to make healthy choices. The heart 360 website has been very beneficial because considering my chest pains I would have ignored the symptoms, and kept doing other things. I understand the risk of having a heart attack. With the heart 360 website have taught me that at any age I can have a heart attack and its more likely that women 30 to 50 die from a heart attack from not paying attention to the symptoms or not acting on them. I think to have a good physician will be very helpful to make me accountable for my health issues. Sometimes having that other push from the physician is what some people need. When going to the hospital Saturday made me aware of the chest concerns that needed to be