From CNN:
Just because you have heart disease, doesn’t mean you can’t be an Ironman.
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Coronary Bypass Surgery
From MedStar Union Memorial Hospital. They say “Last year alone, our doctors performed more than 880 open-heart surgeries and 6,100 catheter-based procedures, including nearly 2,000 angioplasties. No hospital in Maryland or nationally performs a higher percentage (94 percent) of beating-heart bypass surgeries.”
Warning – graphic video!
Silent Heart Attacks: Symptoms You Might Not Recognize
Studies indicate around one out of every two women who suffer a heart attack feel no chest pain. They’re known as silent heart attacks. They’re often misdiagnosed or go untreated making them twice as deadly. Learn more in this video.
Heart Attack Symptoms in Women
A slideshow of symtoms a woman might have during a heart attack.
Heart Attack Warning Symptoms
Heart Attack Warning Symptoms speaks to the 7 main symptoms of a heart attack. It uses real women’s stories to personalize the heart attack experience, and encourages women who experience these symptoms to get checked out.
This video is presented by the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Heart Disease Risk Factors
From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Heart Attack Risk Factors address the two types of risk factors associated with heart attacks, factors that a person can control and factors they cannot. Knowing the risk factors is so important because having just one risk factor doubles a person’s chance of developing heart disease.
This video is presented by the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
What Happens During a Heart Attack?
This video shows what happens to the body when someone has a heart attack.
What causes a heart attack?
Health information explaining what causes a heart attack.
Lower Salt Intake
More from Johns Hopkins:
Join Johns Hopkins registered dietitian, Arielle Rosenberg, as she walks through the aisles and offers suggestions on how to lower salt intake — but not compromise flavor.
From Johns Hopkins
VIDEO: Heart disease is American’s No. 1 killer. Learn how you can stay protected – and what symptoms you shouldn’t be ignoring.
Featuring cardiologist Dr. Daniel Schwartz of Johns Hopkins Community Physicians and Jeanmarie Gallagher, Manager, Cardiac Rehabilitation of Suburban Hospital.
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