# Heart-healthy living Care topic · id `cardio:heart-healthy-living` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `73130c34862e2d06` (public) > General information from published sources, not medical advice, and not reviewed by clinicians. Check the cited source before relying on anything here. The atlas's own text and curation may be reused under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/): credit the atlas, and do not use it commercially. See the atlas About page. Text quoted from a source stays under that source's own terms, given as the source's reuse\_basis. The atlas's reuse terms do not cover it. The downloads list each quotation with its source in third\_party\_quotations. Also called: Heart healthy living Browse, organ or system: Heart Browse, condition area: Risk and prevention ## In plain language NHLBI's heart-healthy living pages explain how to understand your risk of heart disease and what steps lower it. Its topics are knowing your risk, having blood pressure and cholesterol checked, choosing heart-healthy foods, aiming for a healthy weight, being physically active, managing stress, quitting smoking and sleeping well, with a section for children. NHLBI describes heart disease as one of the leading causes of death for US men and women. This page records NHLBI's list of topics; it does not measure how much each step helps. ## Technical summary Scope page, not a clinical statement. The NHLBI pages are cite-only because their reuse terms were not read, so the atlas states their topics in its own words and quotes nothing. MedlinePlus is cited for the general statement that regular exercise lowers the risk of many long-term diseases. Related records in this atlas hold the evidence behind individual steps: DASH eating plan, Mediterranean diet, physical inactivity, cardiac rehabilitation. ## Claims, with the population each applies to ## Context: General public reading the NHLBI heart-healthy living pages Recipient: Recipient not specified; Population: People who want to lower their chance of heart disease. The pages do not define an age range for adults; they have a separate section for children that this atlas does not cover.; Care setting: Self-directed health information on a web page.; Geography: United States (the page speaks of the United States).; Life stage: Not stated in the source for adults; children have a separate section; Gestational age: Not reported; Postnatal age: Not reported; Follow-up: Not stated in the source. ### NHLBI describes heart disease as one of the leading causes of death for US men and women, and presents heart-healthy living as knowing your risk, choosing healthier habits and acting to cut the chance of heart disease. Its topic pages cover understanding your risk, having blood pressure and cholesterol checked, choosing heart-healthy foods, aiming for a healthy weight, being physically active, managing stress, quitting smoking and getting enough good-quality sleep, and it has a separate section for children. - Category: Description - Evidence stage: Guidance - Certainty: Certainty not assessed - Applies to: Recipient: Recipient not specified; Population: People who want to lower their chance of heart disease. The pages do not define an age range for adults; they have a separate section for children that this atlas does not cover.; Care setting: Self-directed health information on a web page.; Geography: United States (the page speaks of the United States).; Life stage: Not stated in the source for adults; children have a separate section; Gestational age: Not reported; Postnatal age: Not reported; Follow-up: Not stated in the source. - Limitations: This describes the contents of a cite-only web page in the atlas's own words. It gives no effect sizes and does not show how much each step helps. The page for adults does not state an age group. - Last checked: 2026-10-15 - Sources: 1. Supports: Heart-Healthy Living: What Is Heart-Healthy Living? (NHLBI) (Webpage, edition Page fetched 2026-10-15. The page states it was last updated on April 23, 2024.) Locator: What Is Heart-Healthy Living?, paragraphs 1 and 2. Retrieved 2026-10-15T13:49:14Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: f01f8eb9f030fe749d5a70d1eb09305b2261b3635575c3bce1bd5a79fb133586. How it applies: The NHLBI description of heart-healthy living. 2. Supports: Heart-Healthy Living: What Is Heart-Healthy Living? (NHLBI) (Webpage, edition Page fetched 2026-10-15. The page states it was last updated on April 23, 2024.) Locator: Topic menu. Retrieved 2026-10-15T13:49:14Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: f01f8eb9f030fe749d5a70d1eb09305b2261b3635575c3bce1bd5a79fb133586. How it applies: The list of topic pages. ## Connected pages - The prevention starting page: Preventing heart attack, stroke and heart failure (`cardio:cardiovascular-prevention`) - Quitting smoking is one of the NHLBI topics: Tobacco smoking (`core:tobacco-smoking`) - Filed under this front: Prevention and lifestyle (`cardio:front-prevention-and-lifestyle`) - Related to: MedlinePlus (`core:medlineplus`) - Related to: Life's Essential 8 (`cardio:lifes-essential-8`) - Related to: Living well with heart disease (`cardio:reading-path-living-well`) ## Provenance Content hash: c6aeecdbc2457ae828f0382f75375da2a883d2f8e5173669ed22b9c30efd320d Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15 Evidence last checked: 2026-10-15