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What foods will lower your risk of heart disease? Which daily activities can help you lose weight or lower your blood pressure? How will heart surgery and medications affect your sex life? Our consumer-focused feature articles address these questions and many others. These topical articles are written by medical professionals including physicians, nurses, and dietitians, and are reviewed by our expert medical review board.
Conditions | Populations | Treatments | Prevention
Conditions
Arrhythmias
Blood Pressure
Cardiovascular Risk
Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke)
Congestive Heart Failure
Coronary Heart Disease
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Arrhythmias
- Implantable defibrillators save lives
- How defibrillators in public places can save lives
- Cardiac arrest in healthy, young athletes
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
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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?
- Drugs that may lead to heart damage
- Preventive cardiology: statins
- How much do you know about triglycerides?
- Cholesterol and your heart: what's new
- Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
- Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
- Preventive cardiology: aspirin
- Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
- Optimizing your triglycerides
- Reducing your triglycerides through dietary changes
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The DASH diet
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Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
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Starting a regular exercise program
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Tips to help you stop smoking
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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
Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke)
- Could you have pre-diabetes?
- Progress in stroke prevention
- Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
- Do you have prehypertension?
- Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
Congestive Heart Failure
- Heart attack in women
- Bouncing back after a heart attack: it's not always easy
- Diuretics: loop, potassium-sparing, and thiazide
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
- Is it heartburn or a heart attack?
- 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
Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Catheter-directed thrombolysis: a new, less invasive approach to the treatment of DVT/PE
- Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
- Traveler's thrombosis: when sitting still can be deadly