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It may seem unusual to talk about heart disease in teenagers and children, but the groundwork for heart health is laid early in life. Habits formed in youth often carry into adulthood, and many cardiovascular risk factors—like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or obesity—can be silent, slowly progressing without symptoms.
In families where heart disease runs deep, understanding risk and prevention from a young age can be life-changing.
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It may seem unusual to talk about heart disease in teenagers and children, but the groundwork for heart health is laid early in life. Habits formed in youth often carry into adulthood, and many cardiovascular risk factors—like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or obesity—can be silent, slowly progressing without symptoms.
In families where heart disease runs deep, understanding risk and prevention from a young age can be life-changing.
The Naked Heart is a weekly series of blogs and social media publications from English cardiologist Dr Edward Leatham. His brief is to apply 50 years of breathing and practicing medicine to the series as part of a move from cardiologist and physician to educator.
The podcast publications that accompany each blog are AI constructs designed to broaden my audience and make quite complicated yet important knowledge more accessible.
The blog articles release each week provide additional information for readers https://www.scvc.co.uk/category/naked-heart/
Podcasts until Jan 2026 are located at https://Nakedheart.podbean.com
Podcasts after Jan 2026 are located at https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-naked-heart