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Prevention & Wellness


Taking care of your heart requires you to eat well, exercise regularly, understand your risk factors and manage your heart disease and diabetes.

In this section, you will find tools and resources to help you and your family do just that. When it comes to cardiac disease, prevention really is the best medicine.


Modifiable Risk Factors for Heart Disease:

Heart Health Education

At WakeMed we are committed to helping you become heart healthy. Please take advantage of these classes, programs and resources to help you and your family stay heart healthy.

WakeMed physicians and staff take pride in spending quality time getting to know our patients and their families, which allows us to deliver your patients the most personalized, individual care possible based on their unique medical history and condition. We offer general cardiology services to diagnose your cardiac condition and manage the disease all the way through the most complex, leading-edge invasive procedures for medically fragile patients.

Specialty Physicians

Our focus is on a team approach to care, providing the right level of care at the right time based on proven, evidence-based medicine. By avoiding unnecessary testing, procedures and duplication of services we ensure our patients receive only the care they truly need. Our physicians are recognized as high-value specialists by most managed care organizations for our focus on value and quality.

Support Groups & Programs

After you have been diagnosed with a cardiac condition, the initial event or medical intervention is just part of the solution because heart disease is a lifelong condition.

At WakeMed Heart & Vascular, we are pleased to offer access to a wide range of services to help you manage your disease. These services include: