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The pandemic has made it harder to exercise and easier to gain weight and delay routine checkups, bad habits that can prime your body for heart disease. These tips can help you get back on...
Making simple changes in what you eat, how often you exercise, how much you weigh, and how you manage stress can help put the brakes on heart disease. But can you actually reverse it, not just...
According to Dr. Salim Yusuf, professor of medicine at McMaster and chief scientist and cardiologist at Hamilton Health Sciences, if coronary artery disease is caught early enough, it can be reversed—that is, the heart can be brought back into a healthy, functioning state.
Read on to learn how much it’s really possible to reverse heart damage, and what you can do to prevent further progression of this serious, but common heart disease.
With some types of heart disease, such as coronary heart disease, it may be possible to reverse some of the effects and reduce its severity through medications and lifestyle adjustments.
"The heart disease you can reverse is the narrowing of the arteries in the heart," says Dr. Kopecky. He says even if you have known heart disease, you can improve your risk factors for developing blockages that cause heart attack.
If you have the gumption to make major changes to your lifestyle, you can, indeed, reverse coronary artery disease. This disease is the accumulation of cholesterol-laden plaque inside the arteries nourishing your heart, a process known as atherosclerosis.
Millions of Americans have coronary artery disease caused by plaque buildup in their blood vessels. But once heart disease starts, can the damage be undone? "Studies have shown you can reverse this narrowing of the arteries to the heart," says Dr. Stephen Kopecky, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist.
Coronary artery disease is the top killer of both men and women, but there are ways to stop it. Here’s how both lifestyle and medications can help.
You can do a lot to prevent or delay heart disease. You can start by changing what you eat and getting more physical activity. Avoiding tobacco products and limiting alcohol helps, too. Making small changes to your daily life can add up, giving you a healthier heart.