Heart Disease
Understanding Heart Disease
- About Heart Disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Heart Attack (Patient Education Institute)
- Heart Disease (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- HeartHub for Patients Take Control (American Heart Association)
- HeartSite.com (Dr. Abdulla M. Abdulla)
Treating Heart Disease
- Surgery and Other Treatments (American Heart Association)
Living with Heart Disease
- Cardiac Rehabilitation (Patient Education Institute)
- Congestive Heart Failure (Patient Education Institute)
- How You Can Lower Your Cholesterol Levels: Tip Sheet (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
- Living With Heart Disease (Heart & Stroke Foundation)
- Living With Heart Failure (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
- Low-Cholesterol Recipes (American Heart Association)
- My Fats Translator (American Heart Association)
- Reduce Salt and Sodium in Your Diet (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
Preventing Heart Disease
- ABCs of Preventing Heart Disease, Stroke and Heart Attack (American Heart Association)
- Heart Disease Prevention: What You Can Do (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- How to Prevent Heart Diseases (Patient Education Institute)
- Make Healthy Food Choices (American Heart Association)
- Start With Your Heart (NC Department of Health and Human Services)
- Vascular Disease: How to Prevent Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Attack and Stroke (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Heart Disease Health Check
- Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
- Cardiac Risk Assessment (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Health Assessment Tools (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
- Healthy Heart Quizzes (American Heart Association)
Heart Disease News
- Heart Disease Newsletter (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
Heart Disease Statistics
- FastStats: Heart Disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Heart Disease & Stroke Maps (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Use the link for interactive state maps to view North Carolina statistics - Heart Disease Facts and Statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Resources compiled by Mark McKone, Coy C. Carpenter Library, Wake Forest University School of Medicine.