| Introduction |
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| Part I: Getting Started with Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease |
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Chapter 1 Taking Charge of Your Heart Health |
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Facing the Bad News about Heart Disease |
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Seizing the Good News about Preventing Heart Disease |
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Checking Out Heart Disease as an Equal Opportunity Health Problem |
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If you're an adult younger than 65 |
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If you're African American |
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Reversing the Risks for Heart Disease |
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Reversing Heart Disease Hope or Hype? |
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Taking Charge of Your Heart Health |
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Chapter 2 Understanding the Onset and Outcomes of Heart Disease |
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Touring the Heart and Cardiovascular System |
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Pumping for life: The heart's anatomy and function |
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Connecting every cell in your body: The cardiovascular system |
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Keeping the beat: How the nervous system controls heart rate |
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Understanding How Heart Disease Begins and Develops |
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Defining atherosclerosis the most common form of cardiovascular disease |
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Triggering the precursors of atherosclerosis |
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Progressing to fatty streaks |
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Growing from fatty streaks to large plaques |
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Differentiating between stable and unstable plaques |
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Understanding a different type of coronary disease: Microvascular disease |
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Knowing when chest pain is an emergency |
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Recognizing the Symptoms and Manifestations of Coronary Heart Disease |
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Recognizing angina, or chest pain |
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Understanding the causes of angina |
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Considering angina's effect on the heart |
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Distinguishing other causes of chest pain |
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Understanding the causes of a heart attack |
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Recognizing the symptoms of a heart attack |
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Differentiating between heart attack and sudden cardiac arrest |
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Taking Action Immediately for a Possible Heart Attack |
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Other Manifestations of Heart Disease |
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Chapter 3 Are You at Risk of Heart Disease? How to Turn That Risk Around |
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Identifying important risk factors |
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Multiplying risks double trouble and more |
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Heading off trouble by controlling risk |
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Tailoring prevention to individual needs |
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Tackling Risk Factors That You Can Control |
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Having hypertension high blood pressure |
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Having unhealthy cholesterol levels |
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Being physically inactive |
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Being obese or overweight |
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Experiencing stress and/or depression |
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Watching for Risk Factors That You Cannot Modify |
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Paying Attention to Emerging Risk Factors |
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| Part II: Taking Basic Steps to Heart Health |
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Chapter 4 Forming a Partnership with Your Doctor for the Best Heart Care |
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Building a Solid Healthcare Partnership |
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Selecting a primary-care doctor |
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Finding the right cardiologist |
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Choosing and working with a managed-care plan |
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Establishing a Partnership with Your Physician |
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Identifying what you have a right to expect of your physician |
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Looking at what your physician has a right to expect of you |
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Helping your primary-care doctor and cardiologist communicate |
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Considering Special Issues in the Doctor-Patient Relationship |
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Participating in research studies |
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Getting your physician's attention when it's difficult |
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Changing to a new doctor when necessary |
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Chapter 5 Embracing a Healthy Diet and Active Lifestyle |
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Making Nutrition Work for You |
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Choosing Healthy Pleasures: Guidelines for Eating Right While Eating Well |
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Eat a variety of nutritious whole foods daily |
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Limit sodium, problem fats, and energy-dense foods |
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Balance the energy you eat with the energy you burn |
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Counting ketchup as a vegetable? Tips for heart-healthy dining out |
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Understanding Physical Activity and What It Can Do for Heart Health |
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Recognizing the difference between physical activity and exercise |
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Identifying the benefits of physical activity |
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Understanding How Much Physical Activity Is Enough |
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Judging moderate intensity |
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Thinking no pain, no gain? No way! |
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Choosing the Right Activity for You |
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Planning your activity program |
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Sticking with your program for the long haul |
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Making Sure You Don't Overdo It |
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Recognizing six signs of overexercising |
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Sounding medic alert: Symptoms to watch for during exercise |
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Chapter 6 Tapping the Power of the Mind/Body Connection |
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Understanding the Connections between Stress and the Heart |
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Describing positive versus negative stress |
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Linking stress to heart disease |
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Linking stress to high blood pressure |
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Linking Type A personality traits to heart problems |
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Linking anger to dangerous heart problems |
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Making Connections: Friendship, Intimacy, and Cardiac Health |
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Suffering the lonely heart |
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Promoting the healing power of love |
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Connecting for heart health |
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Being "Scared to Death" and Other Mind/Body Links |
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Understanding that mind/body links are hardwired |
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"Dropping dead" from stress myth or reality? |
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Understanding stress caused by heart problems |
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Understanding the heart attack that isn't: Heart disease mimics |
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Understanding how psychotropic medications may affect the heart |
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Keeping Stress and Anger at Bay |
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Controlling stress with a four-part plan |
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Controlling anger with five simple steps |
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Chapter 7 Taking a Family Approach to Preventing Heart Disease |
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Setting Your Children on the Path to a Heart-Healthy Future |
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Understanding that risk of heart disease starts very early |
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Modeling heart-healthy behaviors makes a difference for children |
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Fostering nutritious food choices and eating habits |
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Encouraging physical activity |
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Supporting Your Spouse or Partner in Achieving Heart Health |
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Building a Supportive Community for Older Family Members |
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| Part III: Tackling Key Health Risks for Heart Disease |
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Chapter 8 Combating High Blood Pressure |
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Understanding Hypertension: The Silent Killer |
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Defining high blood pressure |
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Identifying categories of blood pressure |
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Understanding the Dangers and Causes of Hypertension |
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Determining the causes of hypertension |
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Checking out other important risk factors |
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Looking at hypertension in specific groups of people |
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Taking Charge of Your Blood Pressure |
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Getting regular physical activity |
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Eating a low-sodium, heart-healthy diet |
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Chilling out to reduce stress |
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Working with Your Doctor to Control Your Blood Pressure |
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Getting a medical evaluation |
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Using medicines to treat hypertension |
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Treating resistant hypertension |
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Chapter 9 Managing Bad (and Good) Cholesterol |
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Hearing the Good News/Bad News about Cholesterol |
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Getting the Lowdown on Lipids |
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Comprehending cholesterol |
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Understanding lipoproteins: The good, the bad, and the ugly |
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Tracking elevated blood triglycerides |
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Testing Your Cholesterol and Other Lipid Levels |
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Decoding your cholesterol test results |
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Equating cholesterol levels with risk of heart disease |
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Treating and Managing Cholesterol Problems |
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Taking an overview of typical cholesterol treatment |
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Individualizing cholesterol treatment plans |
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Managing your cholesterol with three key lifestyle steps |
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Using drug treatment for high cholesterol |
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Regarding Special Issues in Controlling Cholesterol |
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Lowering triglyceride levels |
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Delivering a double whammy high blood cholesterol and hypertension |
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Multiplying trouble elevated blood cholesterol accompanied by diabetes |
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Noting other conditions associated with cholesterol |
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Considering severe and/or hereditary forms of elevated blood cholesterol |
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Chapter 10 Managing Your Weight to Lower Your Risk |
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Setting Realistic Weight-Loss Goals |
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Recognize that your goal is adopting better habits for life |
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Identify a reasonable weight-loss goal for 8 to 12 weeks |
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Subdivide bigger challenges |
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Track your food intake and daily activities |
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Celebrate wins and forgive failures |
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Involve family and/or friends |
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Developing Your Personal Weight-Loss Plan |
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Cutting calories how low to go? |
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Considering a specific eating plan |
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Selecting how many meals and snacks daily |
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Controlling portions the easy way |
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Substituting nutrient-rich foods and techniques for the energy-dense |
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Snacking for better nutrition |
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Adding Regular Physical Activity |
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Don't neglect strength training |
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Chapter 11 Quitting Smoking |
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Affirming Reasons for Not Smoking |
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Linking cigarette smoking and heart disease |
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Linking cigarette smoking with other diseases |
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Considering smoking and women |
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Considering smoking and children |
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Considering smoking and African Americans |
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Considering the dangers of secondhand smoke |
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Checking out the benefits of quitting |
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Understanding Nicotine Addiction: A Chain That Binds |
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Examining what nicotine does to the body |
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Understanding nicotine's impact on the heart |
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Checking out nicotine replacement products |
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Reviewing the Dangers of Other Forms of Tobacco |
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Taking Steps to Stop Smoking |
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Using Helpful Aids to Stop Smoking |
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Developing a Specific Plan to Quit |
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Relapsing is not collapsing |
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| Part IV: Treating Heart Disease |
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Chapter 12 Modern Medical Arsenal: Rx Weapons for Heart Disease |
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Medically Treating Cardiac Risk Factors |
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Lowering high blood pressure |
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Using drug treatment for cholesterol problems |
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Connecting with diabetes treatments |
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Using medications to manage angina |
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Benefiting from other medical therapies |
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Recognizing when unstable angina is an emergency |
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Treating a Heart Attack Medically |
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Diagnosing and starting treatment for a potential heart attack |
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Receiving treatment in the emergency room |
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Continuing treatment in the coronary care unit |
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Recuperating from a heart attack |
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Treating heart failure with medications |
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Employing electrical therapy |
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Keeping Track of Your Medications |
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Chapter 13 The 411 on Invasive and Surgical Procedures |
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Understanding Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCIs) |
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Opening blocked arteries with coronary angioplasty |
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Holding arteries open with coronary stenting |
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Removing blockages with coronary atherectomy |
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Removing blockages with laser angioplasty |
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Preventing renarrowing with brachytherapy |
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Using angioplasty immediately after a heart attack |
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Looking at Coronary Bypass Surgery |
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Understanding coronary artery bypass grafting |
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Bypassing blocked coronary arteries with less invasive surgery |
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Exploring Heart Valve Surgery |
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Opening narrowed valves with valvuloplasty |
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Repairing heart valves with surgery |
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Replacing defective heart valves |
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Treating Rhythm Problems with the Electric Company |
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) |
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Cardiac electrophysiology |
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Considering Other Forms of Cardiac Surgery |
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Chapter 14 Exploring Complementary Therapies |
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Defining Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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Recognizing the Difference between the Placebo Effect and Proof |
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Drawing on Lifestyle Medicine and the Mind/Body Connection |
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Tapping into mind/body techniques |
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Opening up to spirituality |
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Looking at How Natural Supplements May Help or Harm |
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Red yeast rice (monascus purpureus) |
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Antioxidant vitamin supplements |
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Herbal supplements that interact with heart medicines |
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Chapter 15 Taking Back Your Life after a Heart Event |
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Understanding Cardiac Rehabilitation |
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Looking at the components of cardiac rehabilitation |
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Discovering just who needs cardiac rehabilitation |
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Exploring Varied Cardiac Rehabilitation Components |
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Starting rehabilitation while you're in the hospital |
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Continuing rehabilitation during recovery |
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Maintaining your program to keep gaining benefits |
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Educating Yourself about Your Heart Condition |
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Exercise and Physical Activity as Part of Rehabilitation |
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Getting started on an exercise program for rehab |
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Modifying rehabilitative exercise training for specific conditions |
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Developing Strategies for Long-Term Success |
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Modifying your lifestyle to reduce the risks of additional heart problems |
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Getting some counseling and support |
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Partnering with your physician |
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| Part V: Heart-Healthy Recipes |
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Chapter 16 Heart-Healthy Breakfasts |
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Quick Breakfasts You Can Prepare in Advance |
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5-Minute Breakfasts for Those on the Go |
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Leisurely Breakfasts and Brunches |
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Chapter 17 Heart-Healthy Lunches |
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Salads That Go beyond Green |
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Soups, Chili, and Picadillo |
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A Leisurely or Celebratory Lunch |
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Chapter 18 Heart-Healthy Dinners |
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264 | (6) |
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Pasta Sauces for Quick Dinners |
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283 | (4) |
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Chapter 19 Snacks, Starters, and Desserts |
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| Part VI: The Part of Tens |
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Chapter 20 Ten Differences in Heart Disease between Women and Men |
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Women Tend to Develop CHD Later than Men |
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Women May Experience Different Warning Signs |
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Many Women Experience CHD as Microvascular Disease |
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303 | (1) |
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Diabetes May Increase the Risk of CHD More in Women |
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Women May Experience More Problems with Statin Medications |
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304 | (1) |
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Smoking Is a Greater Risk Factor for Heart Disease in Women |
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304 | (1) |
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Depression May Be a Greater CHD Risk Factor for Women |
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304 | (1) |
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Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension Increase Risk of Later Developing CHD |
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Exercise Stress Tests May Not Be as Accurate in Women |
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Women Are More Likely to Die in the First Year after a Heart Attack |
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306 | (1) |
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Chapter 21 Ten Cardiac Symptoms You Shouldn't Ignore |
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308 | (1) |
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Chapter 22 Ten Heart Tests to Consider or Avoid |
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Blood Tests to Determine CHD Risk |
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311 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound |
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315 | (1) |
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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Ultrasound |
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315 | (1) |
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Checking Out Other Cardiac Tests |
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316 | (1) |
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Chapter 23 Ten Tips for Involving Your Family in a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle |
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317 | (6) |
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317 | (1) |
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Model Healthful Behaviors |
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318 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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Involve Children in Making Meals and Planning Activities |
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Start Where You Are Today |
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Never Confuse "Lapse" with "Collapse" |
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| Appendix: Metric Conversion Guide |
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