Heart Disease
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Alternatives
 What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Cholesterol: The Latest Natural Treatments and Scientific Advances in One Breakthrough Program
by Stephen R. Devries, M.D., Winifred Conkling
Heart disease is largely preventable, but conventional cholesterol management is often inadequate. According to university cardiologist and leading prevention specialist Dr. Stephen R. Devries, avoiding heart disease requires a far more comprehensive
Ventricular Arrhythmias or Irregular Heartbeats
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ventricular arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, can range from harmless palpitations to deadly fibrillation, which can kill within minutes. But new drugs and devices show promise in curbing this common condition.
Cancer and Cardiopulmonary Syndromes
by National Cancer Institute
Cardiopulmonary syndromes are heart and lung symptoms, such as dyspnea (shortness of breath), cough, chest pain, irregular heartbeats, and excess fluid around the lungs (pleural effusion) and/or heart (pericardial effusion).
Cardiovascular Spare Parts
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The human cardiovascular system is highly efficient, yet enormously complex. A thousand times each day, the muscular heart pumps five quarts of blood through the arteries, to the smaller arterioles and finally the microscopic capillaries, and then through
The Diagnosis
 The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defects: What They Are, How to Treat Them, How to Cope With Them
by Gerri Freid Kramer, Shari Maurer
If you have a child with a congenital heart defect (CHD), you have a million questions: How did this happen? What kind of surgery is best? What's life going to be like for my child after surgery?
Cholesterol 101
 Cholesterol Down: Ten Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in Four Weeks - Without Prescription Drugs
by Janet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D., LDN
If you are one of the nearly 100 million Americans struggling with high cholesterol, then Dr. Janet Brill offers you a revolutionary new plan for taking control of your health-without the risks of statin drugs.
Understanding Cholesterol
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Despite impressive declines in mortality rates over the past 20 years, coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. It is the number one killer of both men and women, claiming more than 500,000 American lives each year.
Wake-Up Call
 Take It to Heart: The Real Deal On Women and Heart Disease
by Pamela Serure
Blindsided by her sudden bypass surgery, Pamela Serure turned her life-altering experience into a personal mission to help educate other women about this dangerous and far-reaching disease.
Ventricular Arrhythmias or Irregular Heartbeats : Emergency Care
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Patients with ventricular fibrillation must be treated immediately with one or more electric shocks to the heart, which are transmitted externally with defibrillator paddles placed on the chest.
The Artificial Heart, Ventricular Assist Devices
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A currently more fruitful area of research is the electrically powered implantable ventricular assist device, a pump used to support the patient's left ventricle, the chamber that must work most vigorously to send blood on its way throughout the body.
Using Food Labels to Prevent Heart Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
For people who want to eat a heart-healthy diet, the new food label gives information on cholesterol, fats, and other nutrients in ways that are easier to understand and read.
Surgery
The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defects: What They Are, How to Treat Them, How to Cope With Them
by Gerri Freid Kramer, Shari Maurer
Timing of the surgery in the case of pediatric congenital heart defects is an important question. There are circumstances when surgery would be proposed even if the child has no symptoms.
Keep Your Heart Healthy : What's Your Risk Profile?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Risk factors for heart disease are typically labeled uncontrollable or controllable. The main uncontrollable risk factors are age, gender, and a family history of heart disease, especially at an early age.
Irregular Heartbeats : Preventive Treatment, An Internal Jolt
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Before starting any preventive drug treatment regimen, doctors first try to rule out reversible causes of ventricular arrhythmias: for example, caffeine, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and certain over-the-counter and prescribed medicines.
Lowering Cholesterol : CHD Risk Factors, Dietary and Drug Therapy
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In addition to total and HDL cholesterol levels, doctors take other CHD risk factors into consideration when determining how aggressively to treat high blood cholesterol. Age is a risk factor because CHD risk increases with age.
Heart Failure Understanding and Prevention
by National Institute on Aging
In heart failure, the heart cannot pump enough blood through the body. The heart cannot fill with enough blood or pump with enough force, or both. Heart failure develops over time as the pumping action of the heart gets weaker.
Keep Your Heart Healthy : Taking Charge of Your Health
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Because of advances in medicine and technology, people with heart disease are living longer, more productive lives than ever before. But prevention is still the best weapon in the fight against heart disease.
My Dream
 Lady in the Red Dress: A personal story of a woman with heart disease
by Lois Trader
If you know someone with heart disease, it's easy to think something that terrible will certainly never happen to you. Take me, for example: I absolutely know I have heart disease (and now so do you), but almost two years after the discovery of my own
Keep Your Heart Healthy : Taking Charge of Your Health
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
It's important to keep on top of your blood pressure levels through regular doctor visits. High blood pressure disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority groups, including blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians/Alaska Natives.
What is a Heart Attack?
by National Institute on Aging
The heart works 24 hours a day, pumping oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body. Blood is supplied to the heart through its coronary arteries. If a blood clot suddenly blocks a coronary artery, it cuts off most or all blood supply to the heart
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