Taking care of your heart requires a year-round commitment that has lifelong benefits.

  • About 750,000 people in the U.S. have heart attacks each year. Of those about 116,000 die.
  • Many of these patients experience early symptoms.

What will you do to take better care of your heart?

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Fortunately, it also is a condition that responds very advantageously to healthy changes that help provide prevention of heart disease. While symptoms vary widely for men and women, most heart attack sufferers had no previous symptoms. So it’s crucial to know your personal risk factors and take steps to decrease them. Heart disease can affect anyone, regardless of gender, age or background. That’s why all of our cardiac care experts at Dignity Health Heart and Vascular Institute are focused on how to best prevent heart disease and heal the heart. Take one of our quizzes now.

Heart Healthy quiz
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Heart and Vascular Institute
500 W. Thomas Road, Suite 850
Phoenix, Arizona 85013
Phone: (602) 406-1150
Fax: (602) 406-1159