If you’re asked to share a few fun facts about yourself, you’re probably not going to rattle off your blood-pressure or cholesterol levels (even if your “good” cholesterol is, well, really good). But you should have a solid sense of what those numbers are, experts say.
Why? “That old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is absolutely correct,” says Dr. Josh Septimus, an internal-medicine physician with Houston Methodist Hospital. A small
