Heart Disease and Stroke

People who follow a healthy lifestyle have less than half the number of heart attacks and strokes than those who live an unhealthy lifestyle.

Some people who follow a healthy lifestyle still experience a heart attack or a stroke,

but this is likely to occur when they are on average thirteen years older than those following no healthy behaviours.

Source:

1. Healthy Lifestyles Reduce the Incidence of Chronic Diseases and Dementia: Evidence from the Caerphilly Cohort Study. 2013: PLOS ONE: December 09, 2013 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081877

2. Primary prevention of coronary heart disease in women through diet and lifestyle. N Engl J Med 343: 16-22.

3. Healthy lifestyle factors in the primary prevention of coronary heart disease among men: benefits among users and nonusers of lipid-lowering and antihypertensive medications. Circulation 114: 160-167

4. Influence of individual and combined health behaviors on total and cause-specific mortality in men and women: the United Kingdom health and lifestyle survey. Arch Intern Med 170: 711-718.

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