Secondary Prevention

It's already known that aspirin itself can help prevent heart attacks. What makes it so beneficial?

See how smoking damages your heart and learn several common strategies that have helped others quit.

Understand what cholesterol is, how it affects your body, and what you can do to help keep your levels in a healthy range.

Understand the health concerns of having high blood pressure and learn several strategies to help keep your blood pressure within a healthy range.

Understand that having diabetes increases your risk for heart disease and learn steps you can take to better manage your blood glucose levels, lowering your chances of having a heart attack or stroke.

Understand the relationship between unmanaged stress and heart disease and learn several useful management techniques to reduce the stress in your life.

Learn that getting regular physical activity is one of the best things people with heart disease can do to prevent another heart attack, stroke, or cardiovascular procedure, and increase their overall well-being.

People with heart disease are at an increased risk of health problems caused by excessive heat and humidity. This video describes how heat affects your heart and gives tips on how to avoid heat-related injury.

Learn which foods to choose and which to limit when eating heart healthy to reduce your risk factors for heart disease.

Small changes in what you eat can make a big difference in your heart health. Watch and learn how easy it is to improve your health by eating right.

Certain foods can make your blood pressure go too high. Watch and learn how easy it is to have delicious meals without harming your health.

Understand the potential health benefits from the Mediterranean Diet and learn what foods are included and limited in the eating pattern.

Learn tips for safely taking your heart medications as prescribed to reduce your heart disease risk factors and your risk of heart attack and stroke.

Recognize the amount of stress being overweight puts on your heart. Learn tips for choosing healthier foods and increasing your activity so you can lose weight and keep it off.

Heart disease changes many aspects of life, and heart patients often wonder if sex is still safe. This video helps viewers understand how to have a healthy, safe sex life after a diagnosis with heart disease.

Exercise is a lot more than an energy booster and a stress reliever. It also strengthens your heart muscle, lowers your blood pressure and blood cholesterol, and burns calories.

Lower your risk: Control stress. When you're stressed, your heartbeat speeds up and your blood pressure skyrockets. The next time you feel tension taking over, sit back and look at what's bothering you.

Read on for helpful tips to get started losing extra weight for greater heart health.

If you feel safe and comfortable while exercising, you are more likely to stick with your exercise program.

If you have been diagnosed with a heart condition, your healthcare provider may advise exercise to help stabilize your condition. Follow these tips to get started.

High blood pressure can damage your heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and other organs. You and your healthcare provider can manage your blood pressure with lifestyle changes and medicine.

When your blood pressure is lower than normal, you have hypotension. I can make you dizzy or faint. Home care can help you manage this condition.

Malignant hypertension is a medical emergency. It means you have dangerously high blood pressure that could result in organ damage.

Your doctor prescribed a medicine called a calcium channel blocker for you. This type of medicine can treat high blood pressure, fix abnormal heart rhythms, and ease a type of chest pain called angina.

Diuretics help reduce the amount of water in the body. They are often prescribed for high blood pressure, heart failure, and certain other conditions.

Your healthcare provider has prescribed a vasodilator for you. These medicines treat high blood pressure and heart failure. They work by relaxing your blood vessels.

Taking your pulse is a way to measure your heart rate. Follow these step-by-step instructions to find and measure your pulse.

Learn about the 3 stages of cardiac rehabilitation and how each is important to your journey of living a heart healthy lifestyle.

Learn about the different kinds of exercises your cardiac care team may prescribe for you as you recover, and how your progress can be monitored.

Recognize that you don't have to go through cardiac rehabilitation alone and learn who will be available to support you along the way.

Understand that by identifying your risk factors for heart disease and making lifestyle changes, you can improve the health of your heart and prevent further damage.

Recognize the importance of setting healthy lifestyle change goals that are doable for you. Learn about making your goals SMART; specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely.

Understand that following your exercise plan is key in making sure you are exercising safely and are benefiting the health of your heart. Learn how to monitor your heart rate to ensure you are exercising within your target range.

Learn tips for shopping in the supermarket and for using the resources available to help you fill your cart with heart healthy foods.

Understand what is included on the nutrition facts food label and how to use that information to help you make heart healthy choices now, and in the future.

Learn how to use the resources available to you to make dining out an enjoyable and heart healthy experience.

Cardiac rehabilitation is a program designed by your healthcare team. It'll help you recover from your heart problem and reduce your risk of future heart problems.

Having CAD (heart disease) can be stressful. You may have worries about your health and future. If you ignore these feelings, they can slow your recovery.

A big part of a cardiac rehab program is exercise. Regular exercise will make your heart and coronary arteries healthier. It helps increase strength, lower blood pressure, relieve stress, and control your weight.

Learn about the symptoms of a heart attack in women.

Learn how hormone replacement therapy affects the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, and other conditions.

Watch this to learn about the symptoms of heart attack in women and what to do if you experience them.

Learn how stress and depression can affect the risk of heart disease in women.

Learn why quitting smoking is the most important lifestyle change you can make to protect your heart, and your overall health.

Learn how managing your weight, gaining control of your diabetes and exercising regularly can reduce the risk factors that lead to heart disease.

Learn what certain medications do to help reduce heart disease risk factors, and ways to remember when to take your medications.

Women may be surprised to learn heart disease is the biggest threat to their health - even more so than breast cancer. And the same factors that put women at risk of a heart attack also increase their chances of stroke and other health problems. If your heart's in trouble, your body may send you warning signs. It's up to you to notice these and talk to your healthcare provider about them.

Making even one lifestyle change for your heart reduces your risk for heart disease. Change is hard for everyone, so take it one step at a time. Here are some tips to help you get started on making changes that are good for your heart.

Risk factors are habits and conditions that make heart disease more likely. The more you have, the higher your chances of heart attack. Most risk factors can be managed to help make your heart healthier.

A contrast echocardiogram helps your doctor see how your heart is working. It uses ultrasound and a contrast fluid to help highlight the structures in the heart.

An exercise stress test shows your heart's response to exercise. The test records your heartbeat while you walk on a treadmill or ride a stationary bike. It can be done in a hospital, a test center, or a healthcare provider's office. The test is also called a stress electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG).

Cardiac nuclear imaging measures the flow of blood in your heart at rest and then during exercise. Learn what to expect before, during, and after the test.

This type of echocardiogram uses the medicine dobutamine and sound waves to help see if any blood vessels in your heart are blocked.

Tilt table testing is a simple test that helps the doctor find the cause of your fainting. It checks how changes in body position can affect your blood pressure. Read on to learn more.

To help you listen to each other's feelings, you might try this "talker and listener" approach. First, one person is the talker and the other is the listener. Then you change roles.

When you both feel ready for sex, start slowly. Having sex with a partner you know well doesn't cause a heart attack. In fact, it takes only about as much energy as climbing 2 flights of stairs. Here are tips for resuming safe sexual intimacy.