Birmingham and Solihull’s Healthy Hearts scheme aims to help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke for people at highest risk
High blood pressure, or hypertension, rarely has noticeable symptoms. But if untreated, it increases your risk of developing serious health problems such as heart attacks and strokes.
Cholesterol is a fatty substance found in your blood. If you have too much cholesterol in your blood, it can increase your risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke.
When the heart beats normally, its muscular walls contract (tighten and squeeze) to force blood out and around the body. They then relax, so the heart can fill with blood again.
Birmingham and Solihull Healthy Hearts has been designed to improve people's lifestyles across the area
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