"People forget their medication when they're traveling. People aren't taking things as religiously. They're not compliant, the diets are different. You have holiday parties, office parties," said Dr. Jeffrey Park, an interventional structural cardiologist with the Aurora Denver Cardiology Associates at HCA HealthONE Aurora. "You're drinking more, you're eating differently. It's the combination of everything that kind of factors into it, I think."

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