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Understanding Heart Disease

• About Heart Disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Environmental Hazards Weigh Heavy on the Heart (US Environmental Protection Agency)
• Heart and Vascular Diseases (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute)
• Heart Attack (Patient Education Institute)
• Text-only Version
• Interactive Audio Version
• Heart Disease (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
• HeartHub for Patients (American Heart Association)
• HeartSite.com (Dr. Abdulla M. Abdulla)
• Support for Women (WomenHeart)

Treating Heart Disease

• Cardiac Medications (American Heart Association)
• Cardiac Procedures and Surgeries (American Heart Association)

Living with Heart Disease

• Cardiac Rehabilitation (Patient Education Institute)
• Text-only Version
• Interactive Audio Version
• Congestive Heart Failure (Patient Education Institute)
• Text-only Version
• Interactive Audio Version
• Living With Heart Disease (Heart & Stroke Foundation)
• Living With Heart Failure (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
• Nutrition Center (American Heart Association)
• Reduce Salt and Sodium in Your Diet (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)

Preventing Heart Disease

• EPA Green Hearts Campaign (US Environmental Protection Agency)
• Heart Attacks: Prevention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Heart Disease Prevention: What You Can Do (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• How to Prevent Heart Diseases (Patient Education Institute)
• Text-only Version
• Interactive Audio Version
• Lifestyle Changes (American Heart Association)

Heart Disease Health Check

• Cardiac Risk Assessment (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)

Heart Disease News

• AHA/ASA Newsroom (American Heart Association/American Stroke Association)
• Heart Disease Newsletter (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
• News & Events (Million Hearts)

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.

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