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Prevention
By Mayo Clinic staffYou can help prevent angina by making the same lifestyle changes that might improve your symptoms if you already have angina. These include:
- Quitting smoking
- Monitoring and controlling other health conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes
- Eating a healthy diet
- Increasing your physical activity, with your doctor's OK
- Maintaining a healthy weight
- Reducing your stress level
References
- Angina. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Angina/Angina_All.html. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Angina pectoris. American Heart Association. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4472. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Barbara Woodward Lips Patient Education Center. Steps to heart health: Angina and heart attack. Rochester, Minn.: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research; 2006.
- ACC/AHA management of patients with unstable angina/non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction - Pocket guideline. American College of Cardiology and the American heart Association. http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1194979355638UA-NSTEMI.Text.Final.pdf. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Patient information sheet: Ranolazine. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/Cder/drug/InfoSheets/patient/ranolazine.pdf. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- L-arginine. Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. http://www.naturaldatabase.com. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Ruel M, et al. Concomitant treatment with oral L-arginine improves the efficacy of surgical angiogenesis in patients with severe diffuse coronary artery disease: The Endothelial Modulation in Angiogenic Therapy randomized controlled trial. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2008;135:762.
- L-carnitine. Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. http://www.naturaldatabase.com. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Ferrari R, et al. Therapeutic effects of l-carnitine and propionyl-l-carnitine on cardiovascular diseases: A review. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2004;1033:79.
