What I’ve learned in my research is that people that live in low-income areas have higher rates of heart disease that are usually filled with minorities which was shocking to me. I thought it would be even across different ethnic groups. I also learned that lifestyle also plays a part in reducing or obtaining heart disease. How a person takes care of themselves is very important from what I learned, and that if that person keeps a healthy lifestyle, heart disease can be reduced. My point of view stayed the same since the sources I used backed up my claim. I used to think that heart disease usually came from just bad diet and substance use, but as though it’s true, other factors do play a role just as fitness, education, and income area you come up in. I used to think that if you had heart disease you were just unhealthy. Although that can be true, it can also be obtained through inheritance. I also thought that some people just chose to stay unhealthy which causes them to have heart disease, but depending on their environment, some people don’t have access to gyms or money to get good quality foods. Sometimes some people are put in unfortunate situations. If there is more research to be done, I think looking at a specific location with high rates of heart disease would help with research. An area with high rates of heart disease could be looked at by looking at what caused high rates of heart disease in the first place besides what people know today about the area.

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