Prevention
Know Your Numbers to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention
Learn how to reduce your risks for heart disease and stroke, including key health numbers, effective lifestyle changes, dietary guidelines and how heart disease is different for women compared to men.
Since You Can’t Select Your Family, Choose a Risk-reducing Lifestyle
By Wanda F. Moore
As an African American woman, I am aware that I’m in one of the highest risk groups of dying from heart disease and that my non-inherited risk factors are manageable.
The Heart of Women’s Health Lies Deep Within the Chest
By Elizabeth Juneman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson
University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center
When it comes to women’s health, should we be looking more deeply into matters of a women’s chest, not just the breast? For millennia, women’s breasts have been the focus of cultural attention. When you consider today’s medical and social focus on breast cancer prevention, you have to wonder whether this creates tunnel vision when it comes to women’s health.
One-Page Guide to a Heart-Healthy Diet
Do you find the U.S. Dietary Guidelines lacking in specifics on foods to eat or avoid? You're not alone.
Five Ways to Reduce Heart Attack Risk by 80 Percent
If you could do five things to reduce your heart-attack risk by 80 percent, would you take a step to start on this path?
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