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Heart Failure: Avoiding Triggers for Sudden Heart Failure Lists triggers that lead to congestive heart failure: too much salt, too much exercise, and taking medicines wrong. Encourages staying with diet, medicine, and exercise plan.
Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (Systolic Heart Failure)
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (Diastolic Heart Failure)
Heart Failure: Compensation by theHeart and Body
Heart Failure: When to Call for Help Learn why you need a written plan to know when heart failure symptoms are an emergency.
Cholesterol: Choosing a Heart-Healthy Life Learn about making healthy changes that can help lower your risk for heart attack and stroke.
Medicines to Prevent Abnormal Heart Rhythm in Heart Failure
Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Screening
Heart Health: Walking for a Healthy Heart Covers walking as one of the easiest ways to increase your physical activity and improve health. Outlines how to safely start a walking program. Provides tips for staying motivated.
Bradycardia (Slow Heart Rate)
Fast Heart Rate
Heart Failure: Symptom Record
Heart Failure: Track Your Weight, Food, and Sodium
Heart Tests: When Do You Need Them?
Heart Failure Daily Action Plan
Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
How a Heart Attack Happens Get a clear, simple explanation of what happens during a heart attack.
Coronary Artery Disease: 7 Ways to Help Lower Your Risk for a Heart Attack Learn seven ways that can help you lower your risk for a heart attack.
Heart Failure: Living Better by Caring for Yourself Learn why your daily care plan is so important for managing your heart failure.
Avoiding Triggers for Sudden Heart Failure Learn how to avoid things that could make your heart failure worse.
Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight Daily Understand how daily weight checks help you avoid heart failure emergencies.
Heart Attack: How to Prevent Another One
Heart Failure: Track Your Symptoms Learn to keep track of your symptoms to help manage your heart failure.
Heart-Healthy Diet Learn how to start eating foods that are good for your heart.
Heart Attack and Stroke: A Woman's Risk Learn why it's important to know your risks for heart attack and stroke if you're a woman.
Heart Valve Repair or Replacement: Before Your Surgery Learn how surgery is done to repair or replace heart valves.
Heart Failure: Small Steps to Self-Care Learn how to take small steps toward long-term self-care for heart failure.
Heart Failure: What Are Daily Symptom Checks? Learn how to easily check your symptoms daily so you can stay healthy.
Heart Failure: When to Act on Your Symptoms Learn how to know when changes in your symptoms mean you should get help.
Heart Failure: Learn to Recognize Symptoms Learn how checking your symptoms every day helps you manage your heart failure.
Open-Heart Surgery: Returning Home Learn how to take care of yourself and what activities to avoid after open-heart surgery.
Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years? Hear what motivated other people to make changes to keep their heart healthy.
Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes Hear how one woman found the support she needed to make heart-healthy choices.
Heart Failure: What Is It? Find out what heart failure is, what it means when it's high, and how it's treated.
Heart attack: Fast facts Learn what a heart attack is.
Heart failure: Fast facts Learn the definition of heart failure.
Heart Failure: Checking Your Weight Discusses importance of tracking weight for those with heart failure. Covers how to check your weight when you have heart failure.
Heart-Healthy Eating
Heart and Circulation Provides link to info on high cholesterol and cholesterol/triglyceride tests. Also has links to info on coronary artery disease and peripheral arterial disease of the legs, plus tools to decide about treatment options.
Congenital Heart Disease in Children Discusses problems with how a baby's heart forms. Also looks at problems found when a person is an adult. Includes info on patent ductus arteriosus, aortic valve stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta. Covers treatment with medicine and surgery.
Congenital Heart Disease: Caring for Your Child
Heart Transplant
Sudden Heart Failure
Classification of Heart Failure
Heart Failure Describes heart failure (congestive heart failure). Discusses common causes like hypertension and coronary artery disease. Has info on symptoms. Covers diagnostic tests and treatments. Discusses heart failure classification system and stages of CHF.
Healthy Eating: Eating Heart-Healthy Foods Offers tips for choosing foods based on the basics of a heart-healthy diet, including adding fruits, vegetables, and fiber and limiting sodium and unhealthy fats. Explains how to make small changes to get started.
Heart Block
Electrical System of theHeart
SPECT Image of theHeart
Heart Attack Covers causes of heart attack (myocardial infarction, or MI) and unstable angina. Discusses symptoms like chest pain or pressure. Explains MI and angina differences. Offers prevention tips. Covers diagnostic tests and treatment with medicines and surgery.
Congenital Heart Defect Types
Congenital Heart Disease in Adults
Heart Failure Symptoms
High-Output Heart Failure
Right-Sided Heart Failure
How theHeart Works
Heart Failure Types
Heart Failure Stages
Interactive Tool: What Is Your Target Heart Rate? Helps you calculate your target heart rate based on your age, resting heart rate, and activity level. Covers using your target heart rate to know how hard to exercise to gain the most aerobic benefit from your workout.
American Heart Association Healthy Diet Guidelines
Modify Recipes for a Heart-Healthy Diet
Heart Valve Disease
Myxoma Tumors of theHeart
Heart Murmur Discusses heart murmur, an extra sound the blood makes as it flows through theheart. Covers harmless (innocent) murmurs and abnormal murmurs. Includes info on heart valve damage. Discusses tests by a cardiologist including electrocardiogram (ECG).
Statins: Should I Take Them to Prevent a Heart Attack or Stroke? Guides people not already diagnosed with coronary artery disease through decision to take statin medicine to lower risk of heart attack or stroke. Covers cholesterol and other risk factors. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.
Thrombolytics for Heart Attack and Stroke
Medicines That Can Cause Changes in Heart Rate or Rhythm
Heart Failure: Taking Medicines Properly Explains how to take medicine for congestive heart failure. Suggests schedules, lists, and pill containers to remember when to take medicines. Covers need-to-know names of medicines and side effects. Also how to handle missed doses, need to avoid certain medicines.
Heart Failure: Watching Your Fluids Discusses need to watch fluid intake with heart failure. Gives tips for keeping track of fluid intake, spreading fluids throughout the day, and managing thirst.
Heart Failure: Activity and Exercise Covers how exercise can improve health when you have heart failure. Explains importance of working with your doctor to create a plan for safe exercise. Includes tips for staying safe during activity, staying motivated, and getting support for being active.
Heart Rate Problems: Should I Get a Pacemaker? Topic guides reader through decision to get a pacemaker for heart rate problems. Provides general overview of what pacemakers are and what heart problems can be helped with pacemakers. Lists benefits and possible complications of getting a pacemaker.
Heart Rhythm Problems: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)? Topic guides reader through decision to get an ICD for heart rhythm problems. Provides general overview of what ICDs are and what heart rhythm problems can be helped with ICDs. Lists benefits and possible complications of getting an ICD.
Diabetes: Lower Your Risk for Heart Attack and Stroke
How Plaque Increases the Risk of a Heart Attack Learn how plaque in blood vessels can become a problem and cause a heart attack.
After a Heart Attack: Taking Beta-Blockers Learn how beta-blocker medicine helps your heart heal after a heart attack.
Heart Failure: Limiting Sodium Learn how sodium affects heart failure symptoms and get tips for low-sodium meals.
Heart Failure: Being Active Learn how exercise is good for your heart and how to be active and safe.
Heart Failure: Limiting Fluids Learn tips for limiting fluids—if your doctor has asked you to—when you have heart failure.
Sex and Your Heart
How to Prevent a Second Heart Attack Learn how medicines and a healthy lifestyle help protect you from another heart attack.
Is It a Heart Attack? Hear a story about how heart attacks may feel different than you expect.
Heart Attack and Stroke: Lowering a Woman's Risk See how three women made heart-healthy lifestyle changes to help lower their risk for heart attack and stroke.
4 Heart-Healthy Changes to Lower Blood Pressure Learn how healthy lifestyle changes can help lower your blood pressure.
Diabetes: Taking Care of Your Heart Learn why having diabetes raises your risk for heart disease and what you can do about it.
Preventing a Heart Attack or Stroke: How Aspirin May Help See why your doctor may prescribe aspirin to help prevent a heart attack or stroke.
Heart Failure: Taking Medicines Learn from another person with heart failure about the importance of taking your medicines.
Statins Are Important After a Heart Attack Learn why taking a statin pill is such an important part of your treatment.
Heart Failure: Support After Your Hospital Stay Learn about help you'll get to manage your heart failure at home.
Heart Failure: How Support Can Help Learn how to reach out to family or friends for support when you have heart failure.
Heart Failure: Your Reason to Be Active Find what motivates you to add a little activity to your life and benefit your heart.
Heart Failure: Taking Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medicines Learn how to stay safe with prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines when you have heart failure.
Learning About Risk for Heart Attack and Stroke Learn what raises your risk for having a heart attack or stroke and how you can lower your risk.
Beta-Blockers: Helping Your Heart Relax Learn why you need to take your beta-blocker and how to make it easier to take.
How to Check Your Heart Rate Learn how to check your heart rate with these simple steps.
After a Heart Attack: Taking an Aspirin or Antiplatelet Learn why it's important to take antiplatelet medicine or a daily aspirin after a heart attack.
Alan's Story: Coping With Change After a Heart Attack
Physical Activity Helps Prevent a Heart Attack and Stroke
Heart Failure: Tips for Easier Breathing
Heart Failure: Avoiding Colds and Flu
Heart-Healthy Eating: Fish and Fish Oil

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