Heart Diseases--Prevention

• Latest News
• Exercise Test Predicts Heart Disease in "Healthy" Men (09/27/2004, Reuters Health)
• Developing World Needs to Cut Heart Disease - WHO (09/23/2004, Reuters Health)
• Get Antioxidants from Food, Not Supplements, Says American Heart Association (08/02/2004, American Heart Association)

• From the National Institutes of Health
• Ounce of Prevention: A Guide to Heart Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Links to PDF File
  Also available in: Spanish

• Overviews
• How to Keep Your Heart Healthy (Food and Drug Administration)
• How to Prevent Heart Disease (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
  Also available in: Spanish
• Preventing Heart Disease (American College of Cardiology)
• Risk Factors and Coronary Heart Disease (American Heart Association)

• Anatomy/Physiology
• Healthy Heart (Food and Drug Administration) - Requires Macromedia Flash Player

• Diagnosis/Symptoms
• Lipid Panel Test: Gauging Your Heart Disease Risk (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)

• Health Assessment Tool
• For Your Heart (National Women's Health Information Center)

• Nutrition
• Eating for a Healthy Heart (Food and Drug Administration)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Heart-Healthy Eating: Take Action to Help Prevent Cardiovascular Disease (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Heart-Healthy Home Cooking: African American Style (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Links to PDF File
• Homocysteine, Folic Acid, and Cardiovascular Disease (American Heart Association)
• Nutrition (Texas Heart Institute)
• Stay Young at Heart: Cooking the Heart-Healthy Way (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

• Related Issues
• Alcohol, Wine and Cardiovascular Disease (American Heart Association)
• Check Your Physical Activity & Heart Disease I.Q. (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Daily Aspirin Therapy (Food and Drug Administration)
• Exercising for a Healthy Heart (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
  Also available in: Spanish
• For Your Heart (National Women's Health Information Center)
• How Can I Manage My Weight? (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File
  Also available in: Spanish
• How Can I Manage Stress? (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File
• Ibuprofen: Does It Counteract the Benefits of Aspirin? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• JAMA Patient Page: Risk Factors for Heart Disease (American Medical Association)
• Managing Cholesterol (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
  Also available in: Spanish
• Novel Risk Factors: Identifying New Culprits in Heart Disease (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Preventing Heart Disease: Making Lifestyle Changes (American Medical Association)
• Protect Your Heart! Prevent High Blood Pressure (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Statins: Powerful Drugs for Lowering Cholesterol (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File
• Why Should I Lose Weight? (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File

• Research
• AHA/CDC Panel Issues Recommendations on CRP Testing (American Heart Association)
• AHRQ Evidence Reports Confirm that Fish Oil Helps Fight Heart Disease (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
  Also available in: Spanish
• ALLHAT: New Findings about Drugs to Lower High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• ApoB: A Better Marker for Heart Disease Risk Than "Bad" Cholesterol (American Heart Association)
• Comparison of Different Programs to Improve Preventive Care for Cardiovascular Conditions (American College of Physicians)
• CRP (C-Reactive Protein) Improves Cardiovascular Risk Prediction in Metabolic Syndrome (American Heart Association)
• Different Cholesterol Predicts Heart Risk Too, New Target for Drugs? (American Heart Association)
• Frequency of Light-to-Moderate Drinking Reduces Heart Disease Risk in Men (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
• Get Antioxidants from Food, Not Supplements, Says American Heart Association (American Heart Association)
• High Blood Pressure and High CRP Escalate Cardiovascular Risk (American Heart Association)
• If You Think Your Work-Out Is Tough Enough, It Probably Is (American Heart Association)
• Task Force Finds Little Evidence to Support Use of Vitamin Supplements to Prevent Cancer or Heart Disease (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Young Adult Fitness Protects Heart Health in Middle Age (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

• Organizations
• American Heart Association
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

• Women
• Healthy Heart Handbook for Women (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Links to PDF File
• Heart Disease Prevention in Women (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File
• Heart Truth for Women (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Preventing Heart Disease - What Women Need to Know (American College of Cardiology)
• Who's Taking Your Family's Health to Heart (American College of Cardiology)

• Other Languages
• Serve Up a Healthy Life--Give the Gift of Good Nutrition (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Links to PDF File - Vietnamese language material