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Prevention

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Help and guidance is given to everybody individually to prevent the development or worsening of risk factors. This guidance involves adopting a health lifestyle to alter modifiable risk factors, so that the effects of non-modifiable risk factors (i.e. age, gender, genetics) are less severe. Adopting a healthy lifestyle basically involves:

• not smoking
• drinking only moderate amounts of alcohol
• maintaining a healthy body weight
• undertaking regular physical activity
• eating a healthy, balanced diet
• managing stress.

Primary prevention is guidance given to someone who has no obvious CAD. This type of prevention aims to prevent the development of risk factors.

Secondary prevention of CAD is guidance given to someone who already has CAD, so that the disease does not progress as rapidly.

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