Cardiologist Howard L. Levitt, MD, Medical Director of Ambulatory Cardiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Training Program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, explains how heart disease is both genetics and lifestyle. You can’t change your family history of heart disease but you can change your behaviors and manage your weight, cholesterol, blood pressure and quit smoking to potentially reduce your risk. #LetsBeHealthyTogether #hearthealth #heartattack #heartdisease #highbloodpressure #Strokeawareness For more information about heart and vascular care at Newark Beth Israel: https://www.rwjbh.org/newark-beth-israel-medical-center/treatment-care/heart-vascular-thoracic-care/ For more on the lung transplant program: https://www.rwjbh.org/lungtransplant For more amazing Newark Beth Israel Heart Transplant Program: https://rwjbh.org/nbihearttransplant Newark Beth Israel is a Top Teaching Hospital and home to one of the nation's top 15 heart transplant centers, which has performed more than 1,100 heart transplants; RWJBarnabas Health's Heart Failure Treatment and Transplant Program; New Jersey's only Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program and a Structural Heart Disease and Valve Center that performs complex cardiac valve procedures, including minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs). #NewarkBethIsraelHeartTransplant #NewarkBethIsraelLungTransplant #LetsBeHealthyTogether