How can SCA be prevented?
Living a healthy lifestyle–exercising regularly, eating healthy foods, maintaining a reasonable weight, and avoiding smoking–can help prevent SCA. Monitoring and controlling blood pressure, cholesterol levels and diabetes is also important. If abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmias are detected, they can be treated through implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy, use of medications such as ACE inhibitors, beta blockers and calcium channel blockers, and catheter ablation.
