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Prevention

By Mayo Clinic staff

You 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 after you get your doctor's OK
  • Maintaining a healthy weight
  • Reducing your stress level
Lifestyle and home remedies
References
  1. Angina. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/angina/. Accessed May 18, 2013.
  2. Papadakis MA, et al. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2013. 52nd ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2013. http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=1. Accessed May 18, 2013.
  3. Stock EO, et al. Cardiovascular disease in women. Current Problems in Cardiology. 2012;37:450-526.
  4. Angina in Women Can Be Different Than Men. American Heart Association. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack/WarningSignsofaHeartAttack/Angina-in-Women-Can-Be-Different-Than-Men_UCM_448902_Article.jsp. Accessed May 18, 2013.
  5. Kannam JP, et al. Overview of the care of patients with stable ischemic heart disease. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed May 18, 2013.
  6. Meisel JL, et al. Differential diagnosis of chest pain in adults. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed May 18, 2013.
  7. Jneid H, et al. 2012 ACCF/AHA focused update of the guideline for the management of patients with unstable angina/Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2007 guideline and replacing the 2011 focused update): A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines. Circulation. 2012;126:875.
DS00994 July 12, 2013

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