Cardiovascular disease in Australia cardiovascular disease. High blood pressure (hypertension) causes stress to the heart and its function that leads to heart disease. Males experience heart disease caused by hypertension than women. One in five Australians with high blood pressure suffers from heart disease (Nichols, 2014). A key step to prevent any type of heart disease is addressing the risk factors. Such as not smoking or use of drugs, regular exercising, have healthy diet, maintain healthy weight and have regular health screening to check up on blood pressure. These lifestyle changes reduces the risk of developing heart disease (Wood & Gordon, 2011). Prescribed medications
The American Journal of Cardiology The American Journal of Cardiology The American Journal of Cardiology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of cardiology and general cardiovascular disease. The editor-in-chief is William C. Roberts. It supersedes the "Transactions of the American College of Cardiology" which was published from 1951 to 1957 and the "Bulletin of the American College of Cardiology", but it should not be confused with the "Journal of the American College of Cardiology". The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 3.154, ranking it 43th out of 124