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Heart Health Center

Exercise, a healthy diet, and not smoking are three of the most important ways to protect your heart. But even if you're a couch potato, it's rarely too late to undo the damage. Here's how: • The 8 most important ways to protect your heart • Watch your cholesterol • Get moving • Lower your stress • Stop smoking • Eat a heart-healthy diet • Lose weight • Keep blood pressure low Do you know the warning signs of a heart attack? It could save your life. • Warning signs of a heart attack • Heart attack diary There's a lot more to managing heart disease than taking your medications. Here are some complementary ways to mend your heart. • Reversing heart disease through diet • First person: Combating a killer through diet and exercise • Building up a support network • Habla español? Click here for our review of New York Online Access to Health's heart-health articles in Spanish. Visit our self-care center on high blood pressure and stroke. • Hypertension and diet • Depression and hypertension • Stroke • Warning signs of a stroke

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•	Guide to the Heart
•	Quiz: Can You Recognize the Hidden Fats?
•	Checklist: Heart Disease
•	Heart Health Weekly Diary
•	Quiz: Are You Up on High Blood Pressure?
•	Quiz: What Do You Know About Cholesterol?
•	Body Mass Index Calculator
•	Target Heart Rate Calculator
•	Quiz: Fitness IQ

• Alcohol and the Heart • American Heart Walk • Angina Pectoris (Chest Pain) • Angioplasty • Aortic Dissection • Arterial embolism • Atherosclerosis • Athletic Heart Syndrome • Bacterial Endocarditis • Book Review: Heart-Healthy Recipes • Broken Hearts • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) • Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs (Statins) • Clinical Guidelines for Coronary Artery Disease • Coronary Heart Disease • Depression and Heart Disease • Depression and High Blood Pressure • Drugs for Heart Disease • Dual Heart Kidney Transplant • Eating to Ward Off Heart Disease • Eight Steps to Preventing Heart Disease • First Person: Heart Attack Diary -- Part I, Dread and Denial • Guide to the Heart • Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction) • Heart Disease and Exercise • Heart Disease and Smoking • Heart Disease and Weight • Heart Disease: Are You at Risk? • Heart Disease: Lower Your Stress • Heart Disease: Reach Out • Heart Failure • Heart Medications and Adherence • Heart Stress Test • Heart Surgery: Weighing the Decision • Heart murmurs and other sounds • Heart-Healthy Cooking with Recipe Substitutions • High Blood Pressure (Seniors) • Mended Hearts: A Heart Surgery Support Group • Mike's Blog: The Heart of a Runner • Mitral Valve Prolapse • Overcoming Depression After a Heart Attack • Pacemakers • Preventing Heart Disease: Watch Your Cholesterol • Preventing a Second Heart Attack • Quiz: Are You Up on High Blood Pressure? • Quiz: Do You Know How to Eat Your Way to a Healthier Heart? • Quiz: What Do You Know About Cholesterol? • Rescue at 11,000 Feet • Resurrection: Life After a Heart Attack • Reversing Heart Disease Through Diet • Sex After a Heart Attack • Sick sinus syndrome • Special Report: A Change of Heart, Transplant at Age 27 • Special Report: Baycol Recall and Statin Warning • Special Report: C-Reactive Protein and Predicting Heart Disease • Special Report: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and the Heart • Special Report: Women and Heart Attacks • Street Drugs and Stroke • Stroke • Target Heart Rate Calculator • Vitamin E • Warning Signs of a Heart Attack • Warning Signs of a Stroke

Useful Sites • Live Healthier, Live Longer • Mayo Clinic Heart Disease Center • New York Online Access to Health (NOAH): Heart Disease • National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease • American Heart Association Women's Web • Heart Information Network

•	Blood Pressure and Stroke Center
•	Drug Information Center
•	Fitness Rx
•	Food and Nutrition
•	Mind-Body Connection
•	Stress
•	Working Out