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Get Your Blood Pressure Checked: Quick Guide to Healthy Living
Starting at age 18, you should check your blood pressure at least every 2 years. Lowering your blood pressure can reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke – and can help you live a longer, healthi... Details >
National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Get Your Cholesterol Checked: Quick Guide to Healthy Living
Adults age 20 and older should get their cholesterol checked with a simple blood test at least once every 5 years. Lowering your cholesterol can reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke – and can... Details >
National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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
Be Active for a Healthier Heart
Also available in: Vietnamese
Be Active for a Healthier Heart explains the importance of daily physical activity in the prevention of heart disease. ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
ABCs of Preventing Heart Disease, Stroke and Heart Attack 
Your lifestyle is not only your best defense against heart disease and stroke, it is also your responsibility. This document provides simple solutions to cardiovascular disease prevention. By followin... 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
American Indian and Alaska Native Heart Disease and Stroke Fact Sheet
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death among American Indians and Alaska Natives. This document discusses hea... Details >
American Indian and Alaska Native People: Be active for your heart! / Keepers of Wisdom To Strengthen the Hearts
Being active has always been part of the American Indian and Alaska Native daily life. Being active is one way to keep a healthy heart. This document discusses how being active prevent heart disease a... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
American Indian and Alaska Native People: Help Your Heart!
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American Indians and Alaska Natives today. You can do something to prevent heart disease. One way to keep healthy is not to misuse tobacco. ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
American Indian and Alaska Native People: Keep the Harmony Within You - Check Your Blood Pressure
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American Indians and Alaska Natives today. Knowing your blood pressure can help you prevent heart disease. This document provides tips to lower your blo... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
American Indian and Alaska Native People: Treat Your Heart to a Healthy Celebration!
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American Indians and Alaska Natives today. This document discusses how to prevent heart disease by eating healthy and provides tips for making heart hea... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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
Arrhythmias: Risk Factors and Prevention
Also available in: Spanish
People who appear healthy and free of heart disease can experience arrhythmias but those with heart disease are at the highest risk. Reducing heart disease is key to reducing arrhythmia. This document... Details >
Arrhythmias: Treatments
Also available in: Spanish
The underlying cause of an arrhythmia provides the basis for selecting the best treatment. Treatments fall into several main categories along a continuum from the least to most invasive. This document... Details >
Aspirin for Reducing Your Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke: KNOW THE FACTS
Aspirin has been shown to be helpful when used daily to lower the risk of heart attack, clot-related strokes and other blood flow problems. However, no medicine is completely safe. Talk to your docto... Details >
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Aspirin in Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention
Learn about the use of aspirin therapy for patients who've had or are at high risk for a heart attack, unstable angina, ischemic stroke (caused by blood clot) or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs or "l... Details >
Be Good to Your Heart
Also available in: Vietnamese
Don't Burn Your Life Away--Be Good to Your Heart discusses the harmful effects tobacco abuse can have on the body.... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Building Healthy Hearts for American Indians and Alaska Natives
This background paper provides an overview of cardiovascular diseases and its associated risk factors among American Indians and Alaska Native populations in the United States. ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Cardiovascular Disease
The incidence rates of Cardiovascular Disease in Native Americans appear to be increasing significantly despite a fall in the general U.S. population mortality rates, quickly reaching incidence rates ... Details >
Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Cholesterol
Also available in: Japanese
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Don't Burn Your Life Away--Be Good to Your Heart
Also available in: Vietnamese
Be good to your heart, do not smoke.... Details >
Easy-to-Read English/Spanish Booklets on Heart Health
These set of eight booklets were written to help you make healthy changes in your life and reduce the risk of heart disease. Written in a friendly English/Spanish side-by-side style, the booklets pre... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
For Patients, Their Families and Friends - Hope Heart Institute
This page provides patients, their families and friends with quotes, advice, and comfort from people who have experiences with heart and blood vessel surgery.... Details >
For the Health of Your Heart (Salud para su Corazón)
For the Health of Your Heart (Salud para su Corazón) is a comprehensive community-based heart-health promotion initiative from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that targets Latinos living... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Healthy Heart Handbook for Women
This easy-to-use, easy-to-read handbook explains factors that place women at risk of heart disease and recommends steps they can take to protect their heart health. It also has special information for... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Healthy Heart Workout Quiz
Ten questions and answers about the cardiovascular health benefits of physical activity.... Details >
Heart Attack Symptoms and Warning Signs
This online guide lists the symptoms that commonly signal a heart attack.... Details >
Heart Truth
To make women more aware of the danger of heart disease, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and partner organizations are sponsoring a national campaign called The Heart Truth. The ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Pregnancy and Heart Disease
A woman who has a history of heart disease, heart murmur, rheumatic fever or high blood pressure should talk with her healthcare provider before she decides to become pregnant. These health problems a... Details >
Substances That Can Cause Heart Rhythm Disorders
Also available in: Spanish
Thousands of substances have the potential to affect the heart's electrical system and alter its ability to pump blood through the body. Many illegal, prescription and over-the-counter drugs, as well ... Details >
The Native American National CVD Preventation Program
A significant rise in the rate of coronary artery disease has been noted among Native Americans throughout the past several decades. Indeed, cardiovascular disease has become the leading cause of deat... Details >
Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Vietnamese Aspire for Healthy Hearts Keep Your Heart in Check--Know Your Blood Pressure Number
Also available in: Vietnamese
Keep Your Heart in Check--Know Your Blood Pressure Number explains what high blood pressure is, how to read your blood pressure number, and ways to keep blood pressure in the normal range. ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Women's Heart Disease Risk Quiz
Women’s risks for heart disease differ from men's in unique and specific ways. This page is an online risk assessment that alerts women to risk factors of heart disease while raising awareness to how ... Details >