Statewide Iowa – Heart disease is the number-one killer in Iowa, claiming more than seven-thousand lives a year, and without some lifestyle changes, health officials say those numbers will only rise. McKenna Schmidt, a wellness education specialist, says many Iowans face critical risks from heart disease based on factors they can’t control, like their age, race, gender or family history.
Seek out avenues that will help to reduce stress, and she says if you smoke, quit, that’s in addition to getting moving with exercise and eating right.
Some Iowans, even those with good health insurance, don’t bother to get annual physicals or they might not even have a doctor they see on a regular basis.
A recent study predicted more than 60-percent of adults will have heart disease by 2050, and that over the next three decades, Americans are -unlikely- to make any lifestyle changes to prevent it.
