Health Tip: After a Heart Attack

(HealthDay News) -- After a heart attack, it's important to reduce or eliminate risk factors for a subsequent attack.

The American Academy of Family Physicians says these factors increase your risk of another heart attack:

• Getting insufficient exercise.
• Having high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
• Being too stressed.
• Being overweight.
• Having high blood sugar, if you're diabetic.
• Being a smoker.
• Drinking too much alcohol.