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Learn About Heart Disease: Quick Guide to Healthy Living
Certain factors increase your risk of getting heart disease. You are at a higher risk if you are a woman age 55 or older, a man age 45 or older, or related to someone who had early heart disease. ... Details >
National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
A Comparison of Different Programs To Improve Preventive Care for Cardiovascular Conditions 
Patients in practices assigned to the multicomponent quality improvement program experienced greater improvements in the receipt of guideline-recommended care for cardiovascular disease than did patie... Details >
About the Disease
This medical information provides a basic overview of cardiomyopathy.... Details >
Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, designed this Web page as part of a campaign to increase Americans' awareness of the need to act fast ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center
Addressing Cardiovascular Health in Asian American and Pacific Islanders: Background Report
This is a background report addressing cardiovascular health in Asian American and Pacific Islanders.... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
African Americans and Stroke
This site offers information about how African Americans have an increased risk of stroke. Some factors include a higher rate of: High blood pressure, Diabetes, and Sickle cell anemia.... Details >
American Indian and Alaska Native Women's Health: Cardiovascular Disease
This page features links to information about the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in women and the disparities in care for women who have cardiovascular disease.... Details >
Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
American Indian/Alaska Natives and Cardiovascular Diseases
Fact sheet about cardiovascular disease in tje American Indian and Alaska Native population.... Details >
An Ounce of Prevention: A Guide To Heart Health
Also available in: Spanish
An entertaining, colorful (comic-book style), bilingual guide presenting strategies for preventing heart disease. In a series of brief stories, it presents the Ramirez family deciding to make changes ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (Journal)
One of five monthly Journals written for the general public and healthcare professionals and published by the American Heart Association.... Details >