Results for ' risk factors'
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Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke
Having diabetes significantly raises the risk for heart attack and stroke. This booklet addresses why diabetes is a risk factor, and how weight management, nutrition and physical activity can help manage it.
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Stroke Connection Special Edition: Preventing Another Stroke
Information from Stroke Connection Magazine and current medical research addresses common risk factors of recurrent stroke.
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Controlling Your Risk Factors (Spanish/English)
This brochure defines each of the risk factors leading to heart attack or stroke and clearly explains American Heart Association recommendations.
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Living with Atrial Fibrillation: Our Guide to Managing a Key Stroke Risk Factor
This brochure discusses atrial fibrillation as a major risk factor for stroke and provides information on medications, including the anticoagulant warfarin - one of the most promising methods of treatment and prevention of stroke.
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High Blood Pressure and African Americans
The American Heart Association helps explain why being African American raises your chances of having high blood pressure, also called hypertension.
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Cardiovascular Disease & Diabetes
The American Heart Association explains the strong correlation between cardiovascular disease, CVD or heart disease and diabetes.
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Are You at Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke?
A quick, convenient way to assess your risk of heart attack or stroke. It helps readers determine where to focus their efforts to reduce their risk.
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Controlling Your Risk Factors: Our guide to reducing your risk
This brochure defines each of the risk factors leading to heart attack or stroke and clearly explains American Heart Association recommendations.
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High Blood Pressure and Stroke
This brochure alerts readers to the fact that high blood pressure is a leading risk factor for stroke. It provides clear directions for treating high blood pressure and reducing the risk of first or recurrent stroke.
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Understand Your Risk for High Blood Pressure
The American Heart Association helps you understand your risk of high blood pressure, also called hypertension, by looking at family history, age, diet and poor nutrition like a high-sodium diet, obesity and lack of exercise, alcohol as well as stress, smoking and sleep apnea.
