Author(s): Readers Digest

Health

What are the warning symptoms of coronary heart disease, a heart attack or a stroke? If you quit smoking, does your heart attack risk go back to normal? How does a pacemaker work? What's a healthy BMI (and what does BMI mean, anyway)? Keeping your heart healthy and understanding what can go wrong with it and why is a complex business, and it's one this book helps to demystify. Written in a question and answer format, it uses clear, actionable language that alerts you to the danger signals, provides you with advice about exercise, diet, medication and surgical procedures and, most importantly, puts you in charge of your heart health and provides ways to manage heart disease.