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Cholesterol Awareness Month
Cholesterol Awareness Month
Learn the facts about cholesterol to help reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke. Managing your levels is simple with screenings, a healthy diet, regular physical activity and following your doctor's instructions. You'll also help prevent peripheral artery disease (PAD).
Learn more about PAD.
Play games and help save lives! What You Need to Know about TIAs
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Now you can play games and play a part in saving lives! When you play free online games such as Solitaire, Gems and Bubble Burst, GamesThatGive will donate money to the American Heart Association. It's free and fun! Play today!
TIAs: What You Need to Know
While transient ischemic attack (TIA) is often labeled “mini stroke,” it's more accurately characterized as a “warning stroke” — a warning you should take very seriously.
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Types of stroke, diagnosis and treatment, reduce your risk.
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Simple test may identify stroke survivors at risk of another cardiovascular event

Catherine Romero's stroke transformed her from healthy athlete to severely disabled
Hopelessness linked to thickening of neck arteries, stroke in healthy women
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Stroke survivor Nicki James (Petrelli)
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This content is reviewed regularly. Last updated 09/15/09.



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