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Heart Health on the Internet

The Internet is loaded with valuable information to help you get and stay heart healthy.
Here are a few sites to visit.

Calculate Your Risk of Having a Heart Attack in the Next 10 Years
http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/atpiii/calculator.asp?usertype=pub

Know your risks, make an action check out The Heart Healthy Handbook for Women
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/other/hhw/hdbk_wmn.pdf

Just diagnosed? The Heart Truth for Women if You Have Heart Disease
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/material/factsheet_heartdisease.pdf

Puzzled by the difference between an angiogram and angioplasty? Explore the tests, procedures and medical devices used in diagnosing and treating heart disease.
http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/index_content.cfm?contentid=7

Interested in improving medicine's understanding of heart disease in women? Consider participating in a clinical trial.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/c/a1b/screen/BrowseAny?recruiting=true&path=%2Fbrowse%2Fby-condition%2Fhier%2FBC14.b&JServSessionIdzone_ct=7gc6qxqwa1

For your free copy of the National Women's Health Report, "Women and Heart Disease," click here.



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