DOWNLOADABLE BROCHURES

Below we have listed many brochures that should prove helpful in reseaching cardiac related topics. Please click on a link to download hte brochure.

Cardiovascular Conditions

• What Is Angina?
• What Is an Arrhythmia?
• What Is Atrial Fibrillation?
• What Is Bacterial Endocarditis?
• What Do My Cholesterol Levels Mean?
• What Are High Blood Cholesterol and Triglycerides?
• What Is High Blood Pressure?
• What Is Diabetes and How Can I Control It?
• What Are Heart Disease and Stroke?
• What Is a Heart Attack?
• What Is Congestive Heart Failure?
• How Can I Live With Heart Failure?
• What Are the Warning Signs of Stroke?
• How Will I Recover From My Heart Attack?
• What Are the Warning Signs of Heart Attack?
• What Is Kawasaki Disease?
• What About My Child and Rheumatic Fever?
• What Is Metabolic Syndrome?
• What Is Peripheral Vascular Disease?
  

Treatments & Tests

• What Are Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Agents?
• What Is an Automated External Defibrillator?
• What Is Cardiac Rehabilitation?
• What Is a Carotid Endarterectomy?
• What Is Cholesterol-Lowering Medicine?
• What Is Coronary Bypass Surgery?
• What Is a Coronary Angiogram?
• What Is Coronary Angioplasty?
• What Is Echocardiography?
• What Are Electrophysiologic Tests?
• What Is Heart Valve Surgery?
• How Can I Prepare For Heart Surgery?
• What Happens After Heart Surgery?
• How Will I be Monitored After Heart Surgery?
• How Can I Recover From Heart Surgery?
• What Is High Blood Pressure Medicine?
• What Is an Implantable Defibrillator?
• How Do I Manage My Medicines?
• What Is a Pacemaker?
• What Is a Stent?
• What Is a Stress Test?
  

Lifestyle & Risk Reduction

Smoking

• How Can I Quit Smoking?
• How Can I Handle the Stress of Not Smoking?
• How Can I Avoid Weight Gain When I Stop Smoking?

Cholesterol

• What Do My Cholesterol Levels Mean?
• How Can I Lower High Cholesterol?
• What Are High Blood Cholesterol and Triglycerides?
• What Is Cholesterol-Lowering Medicine?
• How Can I Monitor My Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Weight?

High Blood Pressure

• What Is High Blood Pressure?
• How Can I Reduce High Blood Pressure?
• What Is High Blood Pressure Medicine?
• Why Should I Limit Sodium?
• How Can I Monitor My Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Weight?
• What About African Americans and High Blood Pressure?

Diet & Nutrition

• How Do I Change Recipes?
• How Can I Cook Healthfully?
• What About Eating Out?
• How Do I Follow a Healthy Diet?
• How Do I Read Food Labels?

Physical Activity & Weight Management

• Why Should I Be Physically Active?
• How Can Physical Activity Become a Way of Life?
• How Can I Keep Track of Physical Activity and Eating?
• Why Should I Lose Weight?
• How Can I Manage My Weight?
• How Can I Monitor My Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Weight?

Caregivers

• What Is Caregiver Burnout?
• How Should I Communicate, as a Caregiver?
• How Should I Care for Myself, as a Caregiver?
• How Should I Communicate with Heart and Stroke Patients?
• What Are the Caregiver's Rights?

Miscellaneous

• How Can I Make My Lifestyle Healthier?
• How Can I Manage Stress?
• How Can I Support My Loved One?