The chance of developing heart disease depends on many factors such as genetic predisposition, sex, age, and lifestyle. Although you cannot change your genetic predisposition or age, you have the power to change lifestyle risk factors leading to heart disease. The key steps to heart disease prevention are: don’t smoke, get regular exercise and eat healthy foods. It is also advisable to get regular health checkups to determine your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and body fat. Because without testing for them, you probably would not know if you need to take any action.