Jennie Garth Quotes

I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

Get your heart checked. I've always looked at myself as healthy, but I wasn't.

My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it certainly made him look at the way he's living and how he's treating his body.

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

Tell your friends to get their hearts checked.

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's some day. If I know I'm likely to develop it, I'm certainly going to start looking around right now to find if there is something that I can do to offset it.

I've started the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. The big focus is helping people get the correct diagnoses.

I care about heart.

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn't complain. The symptoms are not heavy - a bit of chest pain, arm strain, or indigestion. People ignore those symptoms because they think it's trivial. Don't feel afraid to come forward.

When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.