Your Guide to Living Well With Heart Disease, NHLBI, NIH

You can live well with heart disease. This booklet is a step-by-step guide to helping people with heart disease make decisions that will protect and improve their lives. It provides information and examples of how to live fully, healthfully, and enjoyably as you cope with your heart condition. Includes the latest information about testing for heart disease, controlling risk factors, and treatments. Includes a heart attack survival plan and information about how to recognize heart attack signs and get help quickly. Make living well with heart disease your priority. Useful for any heart disease patient.

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Item No.: 06-5270
Availability: Web/HTML | PDF (1.61MB) | Print (Information about file types)
Format: NHLBI produced publications : Color
Page Count: 72 pages
Subject: Your Guide Heart Disease Booklets
Audience: General Public/Patients
Language: English
Size: 6 in. X 9 in.
Date of Publication: 2006

Customer Reviews

3/21/2011 4:08:00 PM
This was the best informative, clear and concise about heart disease and catherization including other topics,easy to understand

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11/6/2009 5:39:17 PM
This aticle was very infromative and detailed but was at a level that all could underestand it and benefit from it. I feel I gained a lot from it. I plan to use what I gained here to improve my situation. THANK YOU

10/21/2009 7:23:13 PM
I really had some scary things going on. I now know I am normal. I knew about the surgery but no one explained the after effects. I had all of them...including my memory and just every day living. .....Great Job

9/26/2008 6:54:09 PM
My mum has just had a triple by pass and this information has helped me to understand her moods etc. I now no longer think that it is anything I am doing that upsets her. Thank you

9/1/2007 12:33:16 PM
Great work...really helpful material- my dad had a heart attack, so I am worried about it. Dviwesh Mehta

5/12/2007 4:37:24 PM

8/31/2006 3:41:07 PM
Excellent work This booklet is one of the best patient ed pieces I’ve ever seen, a 1st class piece of excellent work.

8/31/2006 3:39:34 PM
great information Lots of great information and lots of sources with a great deal of information. Definitely a must read if you have or know someone with heart disease.

8/31/2006 3:38:25 PM
great information Lots of great information and lots of sources with a great deal of information. Definitely a must read if you have or know someone with heart disease.

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