The Heart Truth®
Patient education
- A website for your patients
- Heart diagrams
- CHD overview
- Risk factors
- Heart attack signs
- High blood pressure
- Cholesterol
- Hormone therapy
- Weight loss tips
- Dietary change
- Exercise and behavior change
- Smoking
- Diabetes
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia
- Related health problems
- Spanish language materials
- Organizations and online resources
Handouts to print out for your patients and other resources
A website for your patients
- The Heart Truth Campaign Consumer Website - This site contains many resources for patients about cardiovascular disease in women.
Heart diagrams
CHD overview
- If You Have Heart Disease Fact Sheet (PDF, 270 KB)
- An Action Plan (PDF, 221 KB)
- An Action Plan for African American Women (PDF, 377 KB)
- An Action Plan for Latinas (PDF, 226 KB)
- Filipino and Vietnamese Resources
- Native American/Alaska Natives Resources
- The Heart Healthy Handbook for Women, NIH Publication No. 05-2720
- 10 Year Heart Attack Risk Calculator (Calculator not for use by diabetics)
- 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor
- For Your Heart Patient Survey
Risk factors
Heart attack signs
- Warning Signs of a Heart Attack
- Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs (PDF, 175 KB)
- Actúe Rápido Frente a los Síntomas de un Ataque al Corazón (PDF, 357 KB) (Spanish)
- Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs Campaign Website
High blood pressure
- Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure
- Take Steps — Prevent High Blood Pressure! / ¡Póngase en acción — prevenga la alta presión! (PDF, 404 KB) (English and Spansih)
Cholesterol
- High Blood Cholesterol: What You Need to Know
- PDF version (PDF, 196 KB)
- Protect Your Heart — Lower your blood cholesterol! / ¡Proteja su corazón — baje su colesterol! (PDF, 426 KB) (English and Spanish)
Hormone therapy
- Menopause and Hormones
- Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Heart Disease
- Facts About Menopausal Hormone Therapy (NIH Publication Number 05-5200)
- Order form
- Download (PDF, 536 KB)
Weight loss tips
- Tips to Weight Loss Success (PDF, 107 KB)
- Aim for a Healthy Weight
Dietary change
- My Pyramid Food Guidance System Website (English, Spanish)
- Menu Planner
- Portion Distortion Quiz
- Sample Reduced Calorie One Day Menus for Various Cuisines
- Sample 7 Day Menu for a 2000 Calorie Food Plan (PDF, 75 KB)
- Food Exchange List
- Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) (NIH Publication Number 03-4082) (PDF, 978 KB)
- Delicious Heart-Healthy Latino Recipes/ Platillos Latinos, ¡Sabrosos y Saludables! (NIH Publication No. 96-4049) (PDF, 3 MB) (English and Spanish)
- Heart-Healthy Home Cooking African American Style (PDF, 3.4 MB)
- Keep the Beat Health Recipes (NIH Publication No. 03-2921) (Cookbook)
Exercise and behavioral change
- Guide to Physical Activity (PDF, 43 KB)
- Stay Active and Feel Better! / ¡Manténgase activo y siéntase bien!(PDF, 316 KB) (English and Spanish)
- Guide to Behavioral Change (PDF, 28 KB)
Smoking
- Kick the Smoking Habit! / ¡Rompa con el hábito de fumar! (PDF, 409 KB) (English and Spanish)
Diabetes
- American Diabetes Association (English and Spanish)
Pregnancy and preeclampsia
Related health problems
Spanish language materials
- Actúe Rápido Frente a los Síntomas de un Ataque al Corazón (PDF, 357 KB) (Spanish)
- Take Steps — Prevent High Blood Pressure! / ¡Póngase en acción — prevenga la alta presión! (PDF, 404 KB) (English and Spansih)
- Protect Your Heart — Lower your blood cholesterol! / ¡Proteja su corazón — baje su colesterol! (PDF, 426 KB) (English and Spanish)
- Delicious Heart-Healthy Latino Recipes/ Platillos Latinos, ¡Sabrosos y Saludables! (NIH Publication No. 96-4049) (PDF, 3 MB) (English and Spanish)
- Stay Active and Feel Better! / ¡Manténgase activo y siéntase bien!(PDF, 316 KB) (English and Spanish)
- Kick the Smoking Habit! / ¡Rompa con el hábito de fumar! (PDF, 409 KB) (English and Spanish)
- La Diabetes
Organizations and online resources
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute – Medical alerts, professional and general health related information, and research and training information for investigators and students, as well as information on The Heart Truth Campaign.
- Heart Truth E-Zine – Subscribe to The Heart Truth E-Zine, NHLBI's quarterly electronic publication for the public that provides new information about heart disease research, upcoming events, heart healthy recipes, and campaign news.
- American Diabetes Association – Provides information about nutrition, exercise, prevention, research, advocacy, and community programs. (English and Spanish)
- American Heart Association – Provides information about heart disease and stroke in women.
- National Women's Health Resource Center – What is heart and cardiovascular disease? Do women really need to worry about heart and cardiovascular disease?
- My Pyramid – A food guidance system to help Americans to make healthy food choices and to be active every day.
- The American Legacy Foundation - Join the Circle – The leading cause of preventable death in American women is tobacco-related disease. Support mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and girlfriends trying to quit smoking.
- FamilyDoctor.org – Information for women about heart disease and heart attacks from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
- MayoClinic.com – Women have historically lagged behind men in heart disease prevention and awareness - but not in deaths. See how the tide is turning, and what you can do to protect your own heart health.
- WebMD – WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.
- Women's Heart Foundation – Provides information on women's heart disease and wellness information, gender-specific care and interventions for women with heart disease.
- HeartHealthyWomen.org – The online source for information on heart disease in women.
- Heart health and stroke – Information on heart disease and stroke from womenshealth.gov.
Content last updated April 1, 2008.
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