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The Heart of New UlmThe Heart of New Ulm initiative is an innovative and visionary effort to eliminate heart attacks among residents of New Ulm, Minn. Our mission is to decrease morbidity, mortality, and health care costs associated with cardiovascular diseases, and to improve health-related quality of life in the community. We will work to eliminate heart attacks through aggressive population identification and interventions. Recent studies indicate that 90 percent of first heart attacks can be accounted for by nine risk factors, including: smoking, fruit/vegetable consumption, exercise, alcohol use, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, blood lipids, and psychosocial stress. The good news is that all of these risk factors are modifiable, meaning they have the potential to change and reduce the risk of a heart attack. In an effort to improve primary and secondary prevention strategies for heart disease, Allina is partnering with the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, as well as community, government, business and other local stakeholders to conduct a long-term initiative focusing on the City of New Ulm.
Heart of New Ulm SummitOn Tuesday, October, 28, 7 to 9 p.m., more than 400 New Ulm residents participated in the Heart of New Ulm Summit, an initiative to eliminate heart attacks in the community of New Ulm, Minnesota, through identifying health risks, tracking the health of the population and providing early interventions to improve health and reduce heart disease. The evening's keynote speaker was Dan Buettner, the author of THE BLUE ZONE: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest, published by National Geographic Books. Buettner's presentation included a simple formula that shared how you could add up to eight good years to your life.
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