“When you reach the age of retirement, 70 percent of men and women have cardiovascular disease,” says Dr. Ahmad Edris, Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiologist at Montage Medical Group. “It is important for people to realize that it is very prevalent.”

Edris says that cardiovascular disease is often preventable. “People can modify their risk significantly by exercising, losing weight, proper diet, and seeing a physician and identifying certain risk factors they may have.”

You can prevent heart disease by:

• Telling your doctor if you have a family history of heart disease
• Getting regular checkups and screenings
• Eating a healthy diet
• Exercising
• Limiting alcohol and not smoking

For patients who need cardiovascular procedures, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula now offers two new state-of-the-art hybrid operating rooms which allow for the treatment of complex diseases in a minimally invasive way.

Learn more about heart disease prevention including risk factors, preventive care, and screening tests.