STEPS TO A
HEALTHIER HEART TO AVOID A HEART ATTACK, GET MOVING, QUIT SMOKING AND EAT RIGHT.
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hen you think about your health, what do you worry about most? If you’re like most people, you fear cancer. Yet heart disease is the No. 1 killer of both men and women. “Heart disease is insidious,” says Oxana Ovakimyan, MD, a Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset cardiologist and a member of the RWJBarnabas Health Medical Group. “It often doesn’t manifest itself until you experience a heart attack or stroke.” In the U.S., someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. It occurs when OXANA OVAKIMYAN, MD Healthy Together
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