September is National Vascular Disease Awareness Month

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — September is National Vascular Disease Awareness Month and Corewell Health is offering free screenings for people who would like to be proactive.

Christina Hopps is a physician assistant at Corewell Health Vascular Surgery and Vein Center. She says that vascular disease can affect the arteries, veins or heart.

“Vascular disease is diseases that affect our blood vessels,” Hopps said. “So that could be the arteries that send the blood from our hearts to the rest of our bodies. It could also be the veins, which return the blood back from our legs and arms and send it back to our hearts, so the return system.”

Hopps recommended simple tasks, such as exercise and eating well to help prevent the disease.

“A lot of the things that we recommend for healthy living,”