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Meet Marlene

Marlene Adigun
Dietary Aide, Citadel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at Kingsbridge

It’s important to monitor your blood pressure and your other numbers.

“It’s important to monitor your blood pressure and your other numbers,” says Marlene Adigun. Even though Marlene is eligible to retire, she’s not ready to stop working at the job she’s loved for nearly 50 years. Diagnosed with high blood pressure more than 10 years ago, Marlene stays active, watches what she eats, takes medication and makes sure to get an annual checkup, along with recommended screenings every few years. “I don’t have to be sick to go to the doctor!”

Long-life Tip

Knowing your numbers is one of the most important things you can do to stay heart healthy. So check out this chart.

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Expert Opinion!

“My research is about developing strategies to reduce the racial gap and the morbidity gap in terms of cardiovascular disease—hypertension, high blood pressure and stroke. One way to solve the problem is to bring health into the community (barber shops, senior centers, churches). Going to communities and talking to folks about their health is not foreign to me. I’m very comfortable talking to people of different ages and different cultures.”

Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD,
Professor of Population Health & Medicine,
Chief Division of Health & Behavior and Director Center for Healthful Behavior Change in the Department of Population Health at the School of Medicine at NYU Langone.

Staying physically active can lower your risk of heart disease by 50%

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