Cardiovascular Health
Our Mission
The mission of the Cardiovascular Health Program is to promote healthy communities through prevention, detection, and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases within South Dakota.Our goal is to prevent cardiovascular disease through public and professional education and partnerships with communities to educate, promote healthy lifestyle behaviors, and build skills to initiate environmental and policy change strategies. The program focuses on primary prevention where risk factors such as physical activity, nutrition, elevated blood pressure and elevated blood cholesterol can be addressed.
What Is Cardiovascular Disease?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) refers to a wide variety of heart and blood vessel diseases and conditions including:
Many cardiovascular conditions can be controlled or even prevented by reducing several controllable risk factors including:
The more risk factors you have, the higher your risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. Controlling these risk factors is important to preventing cardiovascular disease and its complications.
Contact Information
Larissa Skjonsberg,Cardiovascular Health Coordinator
Office of Health Promotion
South Dakota Department of Health
615 East 4th Street, Pierre
(605) 773-3737
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