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For additional information on heart disease, risk factors and how to take action toward having a healthy heart, please visit the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Web links listed below.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI):

NHLBI Web site
The main site of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

NHLBI Health Topics Web Site
Provides information on heart, lung, and blood diseases and conditions and sleep disorders as well as common diagnostic tests and medical/surgical procedures.

High Blood Pressure
A Web page on how to lower high blood pressure, which includes information on treatments, such as a healthy eating plan and types of medications.

Aim for a Healthy Weight
A special Web page that explains how to assess your risk for developing obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, and how to lose weight sensibly.

Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs
A Web page on how to act fast when someone may be having a heart attack. Fast action can save lives and limit damage to the heart.

Stay Young at Heart Recipes
A page full of recipes that focus on cooking the heart healthy way.

NHLBI Health Information Center
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Phone: 301-592-8573 (or 7–1–1 for Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS))
Fax: 301-592-8563

E-mail: NHLBIinfo@nhlbi.nih.gov
(Please include a valid return e-mail address in the body of the message.)

The NHLBI Health Information Center is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time (closed on Federal holidays.)

Additional Resources:
HeartHealthyWomen.org
A gender-based Web site on the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in women, a joint project of WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health (OWH).

National Women's Health Information Center
Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
www.womenheart.org

The Heart Truth Professional Education Website
Developed by the OWH and the NHLBI, it provides information for clinicians and educators about the prevention of heart disease in women.

Last Updated: September 6, 2012

® The Heart Truth, its logo, The Red Dress, and Heart Disease Doesn't Care What You Wear—It's the #1 Killer of Women are registered trademarks of HHS.
® National Wear Red Day is a registered trademark of HHS and AHA.

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