Following six healthy lifestyle choices can help decrease risk of heart disease in women

Andrea Chomistek

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology followed nearly 70,000 women for two decades and concluded that three-quarters of heart attacks in young women could be prevented if women closely followed six healthy lifestyle practices.

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington lead by Andrea Chomistek, and assistant professor Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that women who had healthy habits such as as not smoking, a normal body mass index, physical activity of at least 2.5 hours per week, watching seven or fewer hours of television a week, consumption of a maximum of one alcoholic drink per day on average, and a diet in the top 40 percent of a measure of diet quality had a 92 percent lower risk of heart attack and a 66 percent lower risk of developing a risk factor for heart disease.

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