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Chest Pain
Alternate Names : Chest Discomfort, Chest Tightness or Pressure
Chest Pain: Prevention
Making careful lifestyle choices is an important first step in preventing chest pain from heart disease. Some healthy habits include:
- Achieving and maintaining normal weight
- Controlling high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes
- Avoiding cigarette smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke
- Eating a diet low in saturated and hydrogenated fats and cholesterol, and high in starches, fiber, fruits, and vegetables
- Exercising 3 hours per week or more (such as 30 minutes per day, 6 days per week)
- Reducing stress
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• Definition
• Chest Pain: Overview & Considerations
• Chest Pain: Common Causes
• Chest Pain: Home Care & Treatment
• Chest Pain: Prevention
• Call your Health Care Provider if
• What to Expect at your Health Care Provider's Office
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Tests & Exams
• Blood Differential
• Blood Pressure
• Cardiac Catheterization
• CBC
• Chest X-Ray
• CPK
• CPK Isoenzymes
• ECG
• Exercise Stress Test
• LDH
• LDH Isoenzymes
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• Pulse
Review Date : 8/5/2003
Reviewed By : Jacqueline A. Hart, M.D., Senior Medical Editor, A.D.A.M., Inc. Previously reviewed by Debbie Cohen, M.D., Renal and Electrolyte Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network (5/21/2002).
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