Feature Articles Index

Arrhythmias

• Implantable defibrillators save lives
• How defibrillators in public places can save lives
• Cardiac arrest in healthy, young athletes

Blood Pressure

• Blood pressure recommendations revised
• Animals and your health: the benefits of pet ownership
• High blood pressure linked to inflammation
• Do you have prehypertension?
• New recommendations to prevent high blood pressure
• The DASH diet
• Benicar to lower blood pressure
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: sodium
• Diet helps maintain a healthy blood pressure
• Diuretics: loop, potassium-sparing, and thiazide
• Keeping sodium low when you're eating on the go

Cardiovascular Risk

• Could you have pre-diabetes?
• Hopelessness and the heart attack: the role of depression in heart disease
• Your heart health: what family history tells you
• Break the routine: discover the latest trends in aerobic exercise
• Do you have prehypertension?
• Building sweat equity: how to start—and stay—on the right fitness track
• Trans fats: the new (bad) fat in town
• Antioxidants: antidote to aging?
• How much do you know about triglycerides?
• Cholesterol and your heart: what's new
• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
• Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
• Optimizing your triglycerides
• Reducing your triglycerides through dietary changes
• The DASH diet
• Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
• Starting a regular exercise program
• Tips to help you stop smoking
• Tips for reducing stress in your life
• Total body CT scanning: a new way to look for disease
• Reducing risks when you have heart disease
• Kids and weight control: the role of parents
• Smoking cessation for older adults
• Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
• Exercise helps people with chronic disease
• Brush your teeth, it's good for your heart
• Hormone replacement therapy: does it reduce heart disease in post-menopausal women?
• Drugs that may lead to heart damage
• Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
• Preventive cardiology: aspirin
• Preventive cardiology: statins

Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke)

• Could you have pre-diabetes?
• Progress in stroke prevention
• Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
• Do you have prehypertension?
• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link

Congestive Heart Failure

• Heart attack in women
• Bouncing back after a heart attack: it's not always easy
• Diuretics: loop, potassium-sparing, and thiazide

Coronary Heart Disease

• Cholesterol guidelines for people with high risk of heart attack
• Variant angina: when chest pain is not a heart attack
• Hopelessness and the heart attack: the role of depression in heart disease
• Heart attack in women
• Do you have prehypertension?
• Bouncing back after a heart attack: it's not always easy
• Cholesterol and your heart: what's new
• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
• Bypass surgery: good for your heart but bad for your mind?
• The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
• Implantable defibrillators save lives
• Reducing risks when you have heart disease
• Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
• Statin drugs
• Cardiac arrest in healthy, young athletes
• Surviving a heart attack: timing is crucial
• Hormone replacement therapy: does it reduce heart disease in post-menopausal women?
• Is it heartburn or a heart attack?

Peripheral Vascular Disease

• Catheter-directed thrombolysis: a new, less invasive approach to the treatment of DVT/PE
• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
• Traveler's thrombosis: when sitting still can be deadly

Valvular Heart Disease

Children and Young Adults

• Guidelines for children's heart health
• Weight guidelines for kids
• Kids and weight control: the role of parents
• How defibrillators in public places can save lives
• Cardiac arrest in healthy, young athletes

Women

• The American Heart Association’s new guidelines for women
• Heart attack in women
• The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
• Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
• Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
• Starting a regular exercise program
• Tips to help you stop smoking
• Tips for reducing stress in your life
• How defibrillators in public places can save lives
• Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
• Hormone replacement therapy: does it reduce heart disease in post-menopausal women?

Older Adults

• Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
• Your aging heart: what's happening?
• Seniors: it’s never too late to start exercising
• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what's the link
• The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
• Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
• Staying active to enjoy your older years
• Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
• Starting a regular exercise program
• Tips to help you stop smoking
• Tips for reducing stress in your life
• Smoking cessation for older adults
• How defibrillators in public places can save lives
• Cholesterol counts for women and seniors too
• Keep on movin': exercise after 50
• Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
• Hormone replacement therapy: does it reduce heart disease in post-menopausal women?

Alternative Therapies

• Faith, prayer, and healing
• Animals and your health: the benefits of pet ownership
• Antioxidants: antidote to aging?

Exercise

• Heart healthy physical activity
• Walk this way to fitness
• Exercise that raises more than your heart rate
• The benefits and risks of walking versus running
• What time should you exercise?
• The benefits of a fitness partner
• Setting fitness goals
• Seniors: it’s never too late to start exercising
• Break the routine: discover the latest trends in aerobic exercise
• Building sweat equity: how to start—and stay—on the right fitness track
• Snowshoeing: workout in a winter wonderland
• Health clubs: getting the most for your money
• Ex 101: Lateral raise using free weight
• Ex 101: Situps
• Ex 101: Step-up using free weights
• Ex 101: Crunches
• Ex 101: Military press using free weights
• Ex 101: Bench press using free weights
• Ex 101: Triceps extension using free weights
• Ex 101: Biceps curl using free weights
• Ex 101: Squats using free weights
• Ex 101: Lunge using free weights
• Safety tips for in-line skating
• Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start and exercise program?
• Staying active to enjoy your older years
• Bike safety tips
• Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
• Starting a regular exercise program
• Exercises to build strong muscles
• Weight-bearing exercise
• Aerobic exercise
• Stretching
• Exercise helps people with chronic disease
• Circuit training: fast, flexible, and fun
• Get strong with strength training
• Safety and injury prevention for runners
• Keep on movin': exercise after 50
• Mind-body walking: medicine for mind and spirit
• What can a personal trainer do for you?
• Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
• Want to play hard? Try racquetball
• Six steps to safe hiking
• These legs were made for walking
• Run for someone else's life
• Pilates: a classic workout for a new body
• Cardio kickboxing

Healthful Eating Habits

• Homocysteine and heart disease
• Good food sources of omega-3 fatty acids
• Fish oil, omega-3, and heart disease
• Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat , and cholesterol
• Internet-based weight loss services: how effective are they?
• Diet shakes and meal replacements: can they really help me lose weight?
• The best diet for you
• Avocado: the misunderstood fruit
• Eating healthy: tips to make it easier
• Trans fats: the new (bad) fat in town
• Antioxidants: antidote to aging?
• The benefits of soy for cardiovascular disease
• The whole scoop on whole vs refined grains
• Just how much food is on that plate? Understanding portion control
• Apples: the not-so-forbidden fruit
• The great pumpkin
• The papaya: a little taste of paradise
• Eating well when flying
• Reducing your triglycerides through dietary changes
• The DASH diet
• Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
• On the road again... but with healthful snacks
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet:grain products
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: protein-rich foods
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: fats
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: empty-calorie foods
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: sodium
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet: alcohol
• Cruise eating: don't go overboard
• Bulking up on fiber
• Demystifying oil
• Tater talk
• Diet helps maintain a healthy blood pressure
• All about shellfish
• Keeping sodium low when you're eating on the go
• Fish oil and heart health
• The Mediterranean diet and good health

Other Lifestyle Behaviors

• Preventive measures—at any age
• Internet-based weight loss services: how effective are they?
• Traveling with heart disease
• Weight loss: what are your options?
• Your body fat percentage: what does it mean?
• How much do you know about triglycerides?
• New recommendations to prevent high blood pressure
• Optimizing your triglycerides
• Tips to help you stop smoking
• Tips for reducing stress in your life
• Reducing risks when you have heart disease
• How to meditate
• Kids and weight control: the role of parents
• Smoking cessation for older adults
• Traveler's thrombosis: when sitting still can be deadly
• Become a link in the chain of cardiac survival
• Brush your teeth, it's good for your heart
• Can your heart handle sex?
• Anger: don't put a lid on it
• Is it heartburn or a heart attack?

Medications

• Drug expiration dates: how accurate are they?
• Cost versus coverage: internet prescription drug programs
• Dos and donts for prescription medications
• Cholesterol guidelines for people with high risk of heart attack
• Tips for traveling with medications
• Aging gracefully: reducing your risk of polypharmacy
• Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
• Pill splitting can save money, but talk to your doctor first
• Calcium channel blockers and your sex life
• Tips for safely buying medications online
• Benicar to lower blood pressure
• Reducing risks when you have heart disease
• Tips for safely using medications
• Smoking cessation drugs: nicotine replacement products
• Smoking cessation drugs: bupropion
• Diuretics: loop, potassium-sparing, and thiazide
• Statin drugs
• Hormone replacement therapy: does it reduce heart disease in post-menopausal women?
• Drugs that may lead to heart damage
• Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
• Preventive cardiology: aspirin
• FDA approves heart assist device for permanent implantation
• Preventive cardiology: statins

Procedures

• Catheter-directed thrombolysis: a new, less invasive approach to the treatment of DVT/PE
• Bypass surgery: good for your heart but bad for your mind?
• Implantable defibrillators save lives
• Hospital stays: what you need to know
• Donating blood: giving the gift of life
• How defibrillators in public places can save lives
• FDA approves heart assist device for permanent implantation