- 1. Caregiver Brochure This 4-color brochure is part of our caregiver product line that will help you understand and take care of your needs.
- 2. Understanding and Controlling Cholesterol This brochure incorporates the latest guidelines to set people straight about a confusing subject: cholesterol! LDL, HDL, triglycerides, omega-3 fatty acids - everything is clarified and explained.
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- 4. Consumer and Patient Education Materials Our patient education materials cover a wide range of heart and stroke topics. Browse our library of brochures and videos on subjects such as heart attack, stroke, high cholesterol, cardiovascular procedures and parenting issues.
- 5. The Effects of Smoking (Spanish) Provides information on the dangers of smoking as well as the risks posed by secondary or environmental smoke.
- 6. Warning Signs and Actions: Our Guide to Quick Action (Spanish)_1282918629532 This brochure provides information on how acting quickly can save lives by emphasizing three key steps: Know the warning signs, Call 9-1-1, Give CPR.
- 7. Warning Signs and Actions: Our Guide to Quick Action (Spanish) This brochure provides information on how acting quickly can save lives by emphasizing three key steps: Know the warning signs, Call 9-1-1, Give CPR.
- 8. Warning Signs of Stroke: Our Easy-Reading Guide to Emergency Action This easy-to-read brochure emphasizes the early warning signs of stroke. It gives readers clear directions for what to do if symptoms are present, including the most important of all: Call 911!
- 9. Understanding and Controlling Cholesterol (Spanish) Guidelines for understanding and controlling your cholesterol.
- 10. Sex After Stroke: Our Guide to Intimacy After Stroke This brochure is our guide to intimacy after stroke. Sexual issues are among the most important in recovery, but they can be the hardest for stroke survivors and their partners to discuss. This booklet gives facts about fears and concerns, timing for resuming sexual activity, special physical challenges, sexual positions, alternative ways to make love, and more. Now updated with full-color realistic artwork.
- 11. Tips for Eating Out An excellent tool for heart-healthy dining! This brochure provides ordering ideas for the following food categories: Cajun, Chinese, Family Style, Fast Food, French, Greek/Middle Eastern, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Steakhouse, Thai, Vegetarian, Vietnamese, and more.
- 12. Warning Signs and Actions: Our Guide to Quick Action This brochure provides information on how acting quickly can save lives by emphasizing three key steps: Know the warning signs, Call 9-1-1, Give CPR.
- 13. Sex and Heart Disease Brochure This brochure addresses resumption of sex after a heart attack or heart surgery, possible effects of medication, and several myths and misconceptions regarding sex and heart disease.
- 14. Signs of a Heart Attack (Spanish) Este folleto facil de leer explica las senales de aviso de un ataque al corazon. Incluye indicaciones claras que explican como responder si los sintomas se presentan, incluyendo el paso mas importante de todos: llame al 911.
- 15. Smoking and Your Risk for Stroke: Our guide to snuffing out a deadly habit This brochure details the effects smoking has on the cardiovascular system and specifically how cigarette, cigar, pipe, and side stream can increase the risk of stroke.
- 16. Women, Heart Disease and Stroke Information about the seriousness of heart disease and stroke, related risk factors (including family history, diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure), warning signs, and what to do in an acute event.
- 17. Stroke: Are You at Risk? Our guide to stroke risk factors This risk-assessment guide will help everyone who reads it learn where to focus their efforts in reducing their risk of stroke. An excellent tool for increasing awareness of risk factors.
- 18. Caregiver Resource Book_1279136484706 This Caregiver Resource Book gives a general overview of national medical, governmental and rehabilitation assistance. This overview can guide you to find your own local resources.
- 19. Caregiver Resource Book_1279215729433 This Caregiver Resource Book gives a general overview of national medical, governmental and rehabilitation assistance. This overview can guide you to find your own local resources.
- 20. For Your Children: Our Guide (Spanish)_1281465744717 Our guide to help you safeguard your children from heart disease and stroke
- 21. Caregiver Resource Book_1279134391020 This Caregiver Resource Book gives a general overview of national medical, governmental and rehabilitation assistance. This overview can guide you to find your own local resources.
- 22. Safeguard your children from heart disease and stroke_1277477874666 High blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity, physical inactivity and smoking have always been "adult" topics. But many children have the same risk factors as their parents. This brochure will help parents understand that childhood behaviors lead to adult behaviors. It will support efforts to curb the risk in children.
- 23. Stroke Connection Special Edition: Caring for Stroke Survivors_1281639943570 This 4-color brochure is part of our caregiver product line that will help you understand and take care of your needs, specifically regarding stroke.
- 24. Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke (Spanish/English)_1281640928795 La diabetes aumenta sustancialmente el riesgo de sufrir un ataque al corazon o ataque al cerebro. Este folleto explica por que la diabetes es un factor de riesgo, y como se puede manejarla.
- 25. Print and Web Resources The American Heart Association provides print and web resources and tools for your heart health.
- 26. About Your Bypass Surgery This brochure offers bypass patients information and reassurance, explaining in positive terms why surgery is performed and how it works. It takes a careful look at pre-op procedures, the healing process, home recovery, and how exercise will help patients regain strength.
- 27. About Your Peripheral Artery Disease This brochure is a critically important tool for reducing the rate of peripheral artery disease (PAD) among high-risk populations and general audiences.
- 28. About Heart Transplants: Our Guide for Patients and Their Families Discusses the conditions that render a patient in need of a heart transplant, what happens during the procedure, expected survival rates, and the potential complications following surgery. The process of organ donation is also discussed. Now updated with full-color photographic artwork.
- 29. 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.
- 30. For Your Children: Our Guide (Spanish) Our guide to help you safeguard your children from heart disease and stroke
- 31. An Active Partnership for the Health of Your Heart The new edition of the Active Partnership product includes a workbook and DVD designed to help patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) recover and improve their health after a cardiac event or surgery.
- 32. Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke (Spanish/English) La diabetes aumenta sustancialmente el riesgo de sufrir un ataque al corazon o ataque al cerebro. Este folleto explica por que la diabetes es un factor de riesgo, y como se puede manejarla.
- 33. After Your Heart Attack: Our guide to help you recover This brochure answers the myriad questions patients have after a heart attack. It provides an overview of why heart attacks occur, and the lasting physical effects. Also includes sections on returning to work, depression, family members? emotions, and reducing risk factors to prevent recurrent events.
- 34. Understanding and Controlling Your High Blood Pressure understanding and controlling your high blood pressure
- 35. Caregiver Journal and Planner This Journal helps caregivers manage stress by allowing them to write down thoughts, feelings and anything that comes to mind. It is important to fight negative or unrealistic thinking.
- 36. Understanding and Controlling Your High Blood Pressure (Spanish/English) Este folleto explica cuáles factores de riesgo se pueden controlar, y cuáles no. Tiene información sobre la dieta, el ejercicio y los medicamentos.
- 37. Changes in Behavior and Emotions After Stroke This brochure is our guide to understanding how a stroke can emotionally and physically affect behavior. It details the different effects of right-brain and left-brain strokes on behavior. It provides information on all common behavior changes.
- 38. Stroke Connection Special Edition: Preventing Another Stroke Information from Stroke Connection Magazine and current medical research addresses common risk factors of recurrent stroke.
- 39. 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.
- 40. 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.
- 41. Stroke Connection Special Edition: Caring for Stroke Survivors This 4-color brochure is part of our caregiver product line that will help you understand and take care of your needs, specifically regarding stroke.
- 42. Shaking Your Salt Habit: Reducing sodium to lower blood pressure This brochure provides a checklist for assessing current consumption, identifies high- and low-sodium foods, profiles a wide range of alternative seasonings and the foods they can be used with. It also gives strategies for dining out, and more.
- 43. Your Heart and Anticoagulants This booklet gives an overview of the benefits of anticoagulant drug therapy, providing appropriate precautions for patients. Includes a medication tracking chart.
- 44. Aspirin, Heart Disease and Stroke This brochure presents the latest American Heart Association science on aspirin therapy for the prevention of heart disease and stroke, as well as its use in acute event treatment.
- 45. Effects of Smoking: How Tobacco Use Affects the Cardiovascular System This brochure provides information on the dangers of smoking as well as the risks posed by secondary or environmental smoke. It covers effects on circulation, cholesterol, hardening of the arteries, and peripheral vascular disease. Additionally, it addresses concerns related to teen smoking, and smoking while taking birth-control pills.
- 46. Just Move: Our guide to physical activity (Spanish) Este folleto informa sobre la actividad fisica, ofrece estrategias para incorporarla en su rutina diaria (incluso si usted no es atleta) y alienta al lector a establecer metas de actividad fisica.
- 47. Walking for a Healthy Heart This is an upbeat brochure on the benefits of walking and the ways people can make physical fitness part of their lives. It stresses that you don't have to be an athlete to appreciate the benefits of regular physical activity.
- 48. Communication Challenges After a Stroke an in-depth resource for anyone recovering from stroke. It offers two pages of resources. Perfect for educating the general public, stroke survivors, and caregivers.
- 49. 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.
- 50. Your Mitral Valve Prolapse Brochure Your Mitral Valve Prolapse Brochure
