Heart Disease

This webpage provides tips for reducing stress and its relation to heart disease and stroke.

This is a comprehensive book on heart disease which covers a full-spectrum approach to heart disease, covering prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, recovery, new research and alternative therapies. It provides descriptions of various heart procedures and surgeries. It also educates Canadians on how to be better advocates for themselves and for their loved ones by offering support and guidance through our complicated healthcare system.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation  invests in research, health promotion and advocacy programs focused on preventing heart disease and strokes.    The Foundation aims to build healthier hearts and minds across Canada by bringing life-saving knowledge to the communities it serves, through its local area offices and the healthcare providers it supports with education and resources.  

This website provides extensive information on hypertension, its causes, treatment and prevention. Patients and their caregivers will find here also a list of recommended devices used to measure blood pressure at home.

This patient education website provides information on prevention, treatments and management of several heart diseases. Users have also access to tests, apps and other self-management tools.

This guide explains the most common forms of heart and blood vessel disease and lays out practical strategies to get you on the road to better health. The book also provides up-to-date information for women and their unique heart disease risks and symptoms as well as information on heart-healthy eating.

From the significance of high blood pressure and the importance of controlling the condition, to the necessity of self-help measures such as exercise and a low-fat diet, this book will answer all your questions and more. Explanations of the latest research, tests, treatments, and surgical procedures are all clear and free of medical jargon.

Learn what the common signs of heart attack are and how one should react to get help quickly.

Offers information on several types of heart diseases, treatment options, and living with a heart condition.  Advice is also given for having a healthy heart including nutrition tips, exercises and lifestyle changes.

Emerging science is showing that cholesterol levels are a poor predictor of heart disease and that standard prescriptions for lowering it, such as ineffective low-fat/high-carb diets and serious, side-effect-causing statin drugs, obscure the real causes of heart disease. Authors present the 4-part strategy based on the latest studies and clinical findings for effectively preventing, managing, and reversing heart disease, focusing on diet, exercise, supplements, and stress and anger management.

While most books focus solely on the role of cholesterol in heart disease, Reverse Heart Disease Now draws on new research that points to the surprising other causes. Two leading cardiologists draw on their collective fifty years of clinical cardiology research to show you how to combine the benefits of modern medicine, over-the-counter vitamins and supplements, and simple lifestyle changes to have a healthy heart.

The American Heart Association is the largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. It helps help people understand the importance of healthy lifestyle choices and explains various heart-related medical conditions including, their causes, prevention, symptoms and treatment. There is also information for caregivers on staying healthy and avoiding burnout.

This book offers a medically up-to-the-minute and easy-to-implement program which sets our four key steps to cardiovascular fitness, assessing risk, managing stress, improving diet and making a habit of exercise. It demystifies predictive markers such as triglycerides and Syndrome X, and offers 109 simple, practical lifestyle tips.