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Heart Health for You and Your Family

Heart disease is the number one cause of death for men and women in the U.S.*  There are many conditions that affect the heart, such as coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attack, congestive heart failure, and congenital heart disease.

 
How Can You Be Heart-Healthy?

Talk to Your Doctor. Schedule a yearly checkup with your primary care physician (PCP) or health care practitioner to have your blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels checked. Are you in need of a primary care physician?  View Find a Doctor today to find an available PCP.

Eat Healthy for Your Heart. Good nutrition is key to a heart-healthy lifestyle and to prevent heart disease.

• The Healthy Choices Video Series features UW Health nutritionist, Amy Mihm, and her tips on selecting the right foods to help you prepare heart-healthy meals for you and your family.
• Check out the flavorful, heart-healthy recipes from UW Health's Go Red for Women Heart-Healthy Recipes guide. Plus, learn cooking tips and how to transform a favorite recipe into a favorite dish with Chef Jon's Cooking Outside the Box video series. 

Wellness for Your Heart. Unity offers a variety of programs and resources to help you maintain a heart-healthy lifestyle, or to make the changes necessary to help prevent heart disease.

• Take a Health Risk Assessment to learn more about your health risk factors.
• Get rewarded for living a healthy lifestyle through Fitness First & More.
• Receive health-related service discounts through our Health First program.
• Learn more about heart disease and heart health in the Healthwise Knowledgebase.

 
Go Red for Women

Unity is joining UW Health and the American Heart Association to help women take charge of their heart health in an effort to fight heart disease, the leading cause of death of women in the U.S.

• Take the American Heart Association’s Go Red Heart CheckUp.  The online test only takes a few minutes and it will assess your main cardiovascular health risk factors.
• Learn about Heart Disease Facts & Symptoms
• Read about the Ten Ways to Take Charge of Your Heart Health 

For more tips on how you can take charge of your heart health visit UW Health's Go Red for Women. 

*Heron MP, Hoyert DL, Murphy SL, Xu JQ, Kochanek KD, Tejada-Vera B. Deaths: Final data for 2006. [PDF–633K] National Vital Statistics Reports; Vol. 57 No. 14. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2009.