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Summer Heart Health


Summer Heart Health

Tips from the American Heart Association can help you beat the heat while maintaining a heart-healthy lifestyle. Learn what you can do to stay active, safe and healthy during the long, hot days of summer.
 
Mission: Lifeline Heart Hub for Patients
Mission: Lifeline
Every year, almost 400,000 people experience ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) - the deadliest type of heart attack. Since we launched Mission:Lifeline in 2007, more than 260 health systems across the country have joined the lifesaving initiative that quickly treats STEMI heart attack patients.
Heart Hub for Patients
Get the latest heart and stroke information at HeartHub.org. Our patient-focused Web site offers access to tools, articles, videos and more in an easy-to-understand, interactive format. It's all the resources you need to learn how to be heart healthy!
 
Programs and Tools
Stories of Hope
Should you lose weight? Use our BMI calculator.
What you don't know CAN hurt you! Take five minutes to learn something new.
Hearts for Health Care - Are you in?
What's New
Some stroke survivors' function slowly declines over time
Binge drinking linked with hemorrhagic stroke in Korean men
New way to fix leaking mitral heart valves safe in initial testing
 
A Mother's Story

A Mother's Story
When her young daughter was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease, Jennifer Garnica never gave up hope.

Healthy Living
Summer Walking Guide Summer Walking Guide Walk your way to a leaner summer with the Start! Summer Walking Guide.
Patients and Families
New! Online Brochure

New! Online Brochure
'If Your Child Has a Congenital Heart Defect' brochure is now online. Print detailed sheets on defects, tests and more.

 

 

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Be more confident with better-informed decisions. Take 20 minutes to review your treatment options for cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart failure, coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation. Visit the Heart Profilers.



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