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Lifestyle Issues in Cardiac Health

Resources

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• American Heart Association
• AHA: Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
• Mayo Clinic: Heart Disease Prevention: 5 strategies
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• Calculators: calories burned with exercise type, body mass index, cholesterol, body weight, ideal calorie intake; complications; more.
• Lifestyle Management of Adult Obesity
  Virtual Health Care Team® case.
• MedlinePlus®: Heart Attack
  Has links to clinical trials, diagnosis, treatment, research, journal articles, more.
• Million hearts initiative
  Initiative to decrease heart disease by managing "ABCS:" aspirin for high-risk patients, blood-pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation.
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• 2010 Surgeon General's report--How tobacco smoke causes disease
• Walking Site