 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. February is National Heart Health Month, and according to the Primary Care Center of Eastern Kentucky, cardiovascular problems are the leading cause of death in the United States. We spoke to Public Health Director Tammy Riley on how you can keep your heart healthy. We've been talking a lot this month about what to do to have a healthy heart. When you think about healthy heart, you think that's a strong cardiovascular system, less risk for heart attacks, strokes, and those types of heart-related and other related events. So what we encourage individuals to do is to get moving, get exercise. My recommendation to people would be know your numbers, know your cholesterol numbers, know your blood pressure numbers. In order to keep those numbers down, you want to exercise. You want to eat a low-fat, nutritious meal, so watch what you're eating. Portion control is also a lot of it. And then the third component for those who smoke or use any type of nicotine product is cessation or to quit. The Pike County Health Department offers nutrition services, cholesterol screening, tobacco cessation programs, and other programs to help maintain a healthy cardiovascular system. You want to watch out for any kind of chest discomfort, tightness, pain, radiating pain. Don't disregard any type of chest discomfort. Also, any upper body discomfort that might be in your neck, the upper back. So any type of upper body discomfort also shortness of breath. If you notice shortness of breath, it's certainly a sign to be concerned. And then there's other signs which are like a lot of hiddenness, nausea, other types of discomfort. For more information, go to Pike County Health Department on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.