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Conditions
- Arrhythmias
- Blood Pressure
- Cardiovascular Risk
- Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke)
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Valvular Heart Disease
Blood Pressure
- Blood pressure recommendations revised
- Animals and your health: the benefits of pet ownership
- High blood pressure linked to inflammation
- Do you have prehypertension?
- New recommendations to prevent high blood pressure
- The DASH diet
- Benicar to lower blood pressure
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: sodium
- Diet helps maintain a healthy blood pressure
- Diuretics: loop, potassium-sparing, and thiazide
- Keeping sodium low when you're eating on the go
Cardiovascular Risk
- Could you have pre-diabetes?
- Hopelessness and the heart attack: the role of depression in heart disease
- Your heart health: what family history tells you
- Break the routine: discover the latest trends in aerobic exercise
- Do you have prehypertension?
- Building sweat equity: how to start—and stay—on the right fitness track
- Trans fats: the new (bad) fat in town
- Antioxidants: antidote to aging?
- How much do you know about triglycerides?
- Cholesterol and your heart: what's new
- Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
- Optimizing your triglycerides
- Reducing your triglycerides through dietary changes
- The DASH diet
- Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
- Starting a regular exercise program
- Tips to help you stop smoking
- Tips for reducing stress in your life
- Total body CT scanning: a new way to look for disease
- Reducing risks when you have heart disease
- Kids and weight control: the role of parents
- Smoking cessation for older adults
- Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
- Exercise helps people with chronic disease
- Brush your teeth, it's good for your heart
- Drugs that may lead to heart damage
- Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
- Preventive cardiology: aspirin
- Preventive cardiology: statins
Coronary Heart Disease
- Cholesterol guidelines for people with high risk of heart attack
- Variant angina: when chest pain is not a heart attack
- Hopelessness and the heart attack: the role of depression in heart disease
- Heart attack in women
- Do you have prehypertension?
- Bouncing back after a heart attack: it's not always easy
- Cholesterol and your heart: what's new
- Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
- Bypass surgery: good for your heart but bad for your mind?
- The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
- Implantable defibrillators save lives
- Reducing risks when you have heart disease
- Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
- Statin drugs
- Cardiac arrest in healthy, young athletes
- Surviving a heart attack: timing is crucial
- Is it heartburn or a heart attack?
Populations
Women
- The American Heart Association’s new guidelines for women
- Heart attack in women
- The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
- Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
- Starting a regular exercise program
- Tips to help you stop smoking
- Tips for reducing stress in your life
- How defibrillators in public places can save lives
- Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
Older Adults
- Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
- Your aging heart: what's happening?
- Seniors: it’s never too late to start exercising
- Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
- The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
- Staying active to enjoy your older years
- Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
- Starting a regular exercise program
- Tips to help you stop smoking
- Tips for reducing stress in your life
- Smoking cessation for older adults
- How defibrillators in public places can save lives
- Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
- Keep on movin': exercise after 50
- Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
Treatments
- Alternative Therapies
- Exercise
- Healthful Eating Habits
- Other Lifestyle Behaviors
- Medications
- Procedures
Exercise
- Heart healthy physical activity
- Walk this way to fitness
- Exercise that raises more than your heart rate
- The benefits and risks of walking versus running
- What time should you exercise?
- The benefits of a fitness partner
- Setting fitness goals
- Seniors: it’s never too late to start exercising
- Break the routine: discover the latest trends in aerobic exercise
- Building sweat equity: how to start—and stay—on the right fitness track
- Snowshoeing: workout in a winter wonderland
- Health clubs: getting the most for your money
- Ex 101: Lateral raise using free weight
- Ex 101: Situps
- Ex 101: Step-up using free weights
- Ex 101: Crunches
- Ex 101: Military press using free weights
- Ex 101: Bench press using free weights
- Ex 101: Triceps extension using free weights
- Ex 101: Biceps curl using free weights
- Ex 101: Squats using free weights
- Ex 101: Lunge using free weights
- Safety tips for in-line skating
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
- Staying active to enjoy your older years
- Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
- Starting a regular exercise program
- Exercises to build strong muscles
- Weight-bearing exercise
- Aerobic exercise
- Stretching
- Exercise helps people with chronic disease
- Circuit training: fast, flexible, and fun
- Get strong with strength training
- Safety and injury prevention for runners
- Keep on movin': exercise after 50
- Mind-body walking: medicine for mind and spirit
- What can a personal trainer do for you?
- Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
- Want to play hard? Try racquetball
- Six steps to safe hiking
- These legs were made for walking
- Run for someone else's life
- Pilates: a classic workout for a new body
- Cardio kickboxing
Healthful Eating Habits
- Homocysteine and heart disease
- Fish oil, omega-3, and heart disease
- Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat , and cholesterol
- Internet-based weight loss services: how effective are they?
- The best diet for you
- Avocado: the misunderstood fruit
- Eating healthy: tips to make it easier
- Trans fats: the new (bad) fat in town
- Antioxidants: antidote to aging?
- The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
- The whole scoop on whole vs refined grains
- Just how much food is on that plate? Understanding portion control
- Apples: the not-so-forbidden fruit
- The great pumpkin
- The papaya: a little taste of paradise
- Eating well when flying
- Reducing your triglycerides through dietary changes
- The DASH diet
- Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
- On the road again... but with healthful snacks
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet:grain products
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: protein-rich foods
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: fats
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: empty-calorie foods
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: sodium
- Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: alcohol
- Cruise eating: don't go overboard
- Bulking up on fiber
- Demystifying oil
- Tater talk
- Diet helps maintain a healthy blood pressure
- All about shellfish
- Keeping sodium low when you're eating on the go
- The Mediterranean diet and good health
Other Lifestyle Behaviors
- Preventive measures—at any age
- Internet-based weight loss services: how effective are they?
- Traveling with heart disease
- Weight loss: what are your options?
- Your body fat percentage: what does it mean?
- How much do you know about triglycerides?
- New recommendations to prevent high blood pressure
- Optimizing your triglycerides
- Tips to help you stop smoking
- Tips for reducing stress in your life
- Reducing risks when you have heart disease
- How to meditate
- Kids and weight control: the role of parents
- Smoking cessation for older adults
- Traveler's thrombosis: when sitting still can be deadly
- Become a link in the chain of cardiac survival
- Brush your teeth, it's good for your heart
- Can your heart handle sex?
- Anger: don't put a lid on it
- Is it heartburn or a heart attack?
Medications
- Drug expiration dates: how accurate are they?
- Cost versus coverage: internet prescription drug programs
- Dos and donts for prescription medications
- Cholesterol guidelines for people with high risk of heart attack
- Tips for traveling with medications
- Aging gracefully: reducing your risk of polypharmacy
- Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
- Pill splitting can save money, but talk to your doctor first
- Calcium channel blockers and your sex life
- Tips for safely buying medications online
- Benicar to lower blood pressure
- Reducing risks when you have heart disease
- Tips for safely using medications
- Smoking cessation drugs: nicotine replacement products
- Smoking cessation drugs: bupropion
- Diuretics: loop, potassium-sparing, and thiazide
- Statin drugs
- Drugs that may lead to heart damage
- Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
- Preventive cardiology: aspirin
- FDA approves heart assist device for permanent implantation
- Preventive cardiology: statins
Procedures
- Catheter-directed thrombolysis: a new, less invasive approach to the treatment of DVT/PE
- Bypass surgery: good for your heart but bad for your mind?
- Implantable defibrillators save lives
- Hospital stays: what you need to know
- Donating blood: giving the gift of life
- How defibrillators in public places can save lives
- FDA approves heart assist device for permanent implantation
