Heart attack - Having people in your family who've had a heart attack

Heart attack

Having people in your family who've had a heart attack

Heart disease and heart attacks tend to run in families. So you may be at a higher risk if your father or your brother was diagnosed with heart disease before age 55 or if your mother or your sister was diagnosed before age 65.

Source:
National Institute of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Act in TIME to heart attack signs.
Available at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/actintime (accessed on 11 November 2008).

Sources for the information on this page:

National Institute of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.Act in TIME to heart attack signs.Available at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/actintime (accessed on 11 November 2008).

This information was last updated on Apr 09, 2009

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