Most People in the United States are at high risk of some type of heart disease in their lifetime.

The highest risk factors are males over 35, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, high amount of stress and a family history of cardiovascular disorders.

Threats of heart disease can be divided into two main categories: genetically such as age, sex, and heredity, and  the controllable factors are high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, and high cholesterol levels in the blood.

The Healthy Heart

Quitting cigarettes and eating a low-fat diet is in your favor. The next best thing is regular exercise or complete cardio interval training.

The heart is a muscle, or muscles, similar in many ways to the muscles of the arms and legs. And just as exercise strengthens and improves limb muscles, it enhances the health of the heart muscles as well.

If you are suffering from any type of heart disease you can help to enable the damaged heart muscle to heal, the heart relies on new small blood vessels for what is called collateral circulation. These new branches on the arterial tress can develop long before a heart attack — and can prevent a heart attack if the new network takes on enough of the function of the narrowed vessels with intense exercise.