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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
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
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
Cardiovascular Conditions: Treatments and Tests 
This section links to topics that cover a range of tests and treatments for cardiovascular conditions and tips on disease management, recovery, and taking medication.... Details >
Cardiovascular Diseases: Lifestyle and Risk Reduction
You can make lifestyle choices that can reduce your risk for heart disease and stroke. These information sheets will help you get started. Topics include smoking, diet and nutrition, physical activity... Details >
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment for Women
This site provides a self-assessment for women on cardiovascular disease; this assessment will help you prevent one of the leading causes of death in American women, exceeding all forms of cancers com... Details >
Facts about Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.)
Also available in: Spanish
Peripheral arterial disease, or P.A.D., develops when your arteries become clogged with plaque—fatty deposits that limit blood flow to your legs. Just like clogged arteries in the heart, clogged arter... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Facts about Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) for African Americans
One in every 20 Americans over the age of 50 has peripheral arterial disease, or P.A.D., a condition that raises the risk for heart attack and stroke. P.A.D. is more common in African Americans than ... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Stay in Circulation: Steps to take to learn about Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.)
Also available in: Spanish
One in every 20 Americans over the age of 50 has peripheral arterial disease, or P.A.D., a common, yet serious, disease that raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. This Web site will help you lea... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health