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Show Six ways listed to avoid heart attacks On the basis of population studies in which thousands of middle-aged persons participated, participat-ed, the Heart Association prescribes pre-scribes a six-pronged attack on heart attack risk factors. They are: Have regular medical medi-cal checkups; regulate fat and cholesterol in the diet; reduce if overweight; control high blood pressure; don't smoke cigarettes; exercise regularly. Periodic medical checkups, the booklet points out, make it possible for doctors to detect and treat promptly a number of conditions predisposing to heart attacks. These include: diabetes, high blood pressure, and high blood levels of cholesterol chol-esterol and other fatty substances. |