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5 strategies you can adopt today to prevent heart disease
ACE inhibitors: New warning for pregnant women
Alpha blockers
Angina treatment: Stents, drugs, lifestyle changes — What's best?
Angiotensin II receptor blockers
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
Automated external defibrillators: Do you need an AED?
Beta blockers
Biventricular pacemaker: Cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure
Broken heart syndrome: Is bad news bad for your heart?
Calcium channel blockers
Cardiac rehabilitation: Building a better life after heart disease
Cardiovascular disease 101: Know your heart and blood vessels
Central-acting agents
Chest X-rays: Helping detect heart and lung conditions
Cholesterol levels: What numbers should you aim for?
Cholesterol: The best foods to lower your cholesterol and protect your heart
Choosing blood pressure medications
Claudication: When circulation problems cause leg pain
Congenital heart defects: When your baby's born with a heart malformation
Congenital heart disease: Don't overlook condition as an adult
Coronary angiography and other heart catheterization procedures
Coronary angioplasty and stenting: Opening clogged arteries
Coronary artery bypass surgery
Coronary calcium scans: Heart scans mired in controversy
Daily aspirin therapy
DASH diet: Avoid hidden dangers when dining out
DASH diet: Shopping, cooking and a well-stocked kitchen
Diuretics
Doing the DASH: Taking the guesswork out of healthy eating
Drug-eluting stents: Do they increase heart attack risk?
Echocardiogram: Sound imaging of the heart
Electrocardiogram: Tracing the electrical path through the heart
Flu shots: Important for people with heart disease
HDL cholesterol: How to boost your "good" cholesterol
Heart attack symptoms: Know what signals a medical emergency
Heart failure: Heart pumps help keep the beat
Heart transplant: A treatment for end-stage heart failure
Heart-healthy eating to help prevent cardiovascular disease
High blood pressure and children: Early treatment offers hope
High blood pressure and exercise: Why activity is key
High blood pressure and sex: Overcome the challenges
High blood pressure: Are you at risk?
High blood pressure: Early treatment may offer protection
High blood pressure: Get the most out of home monitoring
High blood pressure: Take steps to control it
How being black affects your blood pressure
How being older affects your blood pressure
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: After your ICD is implanted
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Controlling a chaotic heart
Is cholesterol in turkey? Check your Thanksgiving favorites
Lowering cholesterol: Could your diet use some TLC?
Mediterranean diet for heart health
Menus for heart-healthy eating
Niacin to boost your HDL 'good' cholesterol
Nuts and your heart: Eating nuts for heart health
Omega-3 in fish: How eating fish helps your heart
Pacemakers: Generating regular heartbeats
Plavix plus aspirin may be a risky combination
Policosanol: Popular supplement doesn't reduce cholesterol
Protecting women's hearts: An interview with a Mayo Clinic specialist
Red wine and resveratrol: Good for your heart?
Red yeast rice: Popular cholesterol-lowering option could carry risks
Reduce cholesterol with lifestyle changes
Sample menus for the DASH eating plan
Secondary high blood pressure: When another condition causes hypertension
Statins: Are these cholesterol-lowering drugs right for you?
Stress and high blood pressure: What's the connection?
Sudden death in young people — Heart problems often blamed
The dangers of high blood pressure: A look at what hypertension can do to different parts of your body
Triglycerides: Why do they matter?
Vasodilators
Warfarin side effects: Watch for dangerous interactions
Women's heart disease: New study shows differences
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