Prevention

You can help prevent angina by making the same lifestyle changes that might improve your symptoms if you already have angina. These include:

• Quitting smoking.
• Monitoring and controlling other health conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.
• Eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy weight.
• Increasing your physical activity after you get your doctor's OK. Aim for 150 minutes of moderate activity each week. Plus, it's recommended that you get 10 minutes of strength training twice a week and to stretch three times a week for five to 10 minutes each time.
• Reducing your stress level.
• Limiting alcohol consumption to two drinks or fewer a day for men, and one drink a day or less for women.
• Getting an annual flu shot to avoid heart complications from the virus.