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  • Nutrition

 

 

  • Review recipes and topics on healthy eating for your heart by reading about the U.S. dietary guidelines. 
  • Read about the role of sugar in cardiac health. 
  • Learn more about cholesterol. What it is and what it does for you? 
  • Know more about Heart-Healthy food
  • Truth or Myth? Will a Low-Cholesterol Diet Prevent Heart Disease?
  • Truth or Myth? Can I Eat Whatever I Want If I Exercise Enough?
  • Cardiovascular Conditions

 

  • Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Discover more about having this condition. 
  • Know about Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Diabetes and Your Heart: Living with Diabetes
  • Coronary Artery Disease: Understand more about the disease that is the leading cause of death in men and women. 
  • Heart Attack: Know the signs. 
  • SCA: What is it and isn’t? Sudden Cardiac Arrest
  • Peripheral Artery Disease: Understand the link of PAD to heart attacks and strokes. 
  • High Blood Pressure: Read about hypertension and how 1 in 2 people live with it. 
  • High Cholesterol: Discover how to carry on with hyperlipidemia. 
  • Metabolic Syndrome: Uncover your risk factors. 
  • Heart Failure: Learn about having this condition. 
  • Congenital Heart Disease: Recognize the most common birth defect. 
  • How your body weight relates to cardiovascular disease Obesity and your Heart
  • Valvular Heart Disease: Understand the disease that occurs when any valve in the heart is damaged or diseased. 
  • Clinical Trials

  • Explore clinical trials and how they open up the way for new treatments and medications in heart disease. 
  • What is a Clinical trial?
  • Basic Genetics

 

  • Know more about the basic genetics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) Basic Genetics 
  • Learn more about Cardio Genetics
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