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Heart Disease


Organizations

- American College of Cardiology

- American Heart Association

- Michigan Stroke Initiative

- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

- Women's Heart Foundation



This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-3513.

General Information

- American Heart Association Women's Web Site

- Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Tool (American Heart Association)

- Fact Sheets and Surgeon General's Reports (CDC)

- FASTATS: Heart Disease (National Center for Health Statistics)

- Healthy Heart Handbook for Women (2003. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)

- Heart Disease and Stroke, African American Health Resources (Community Health Information Services, Shiffman Medical Library)

- MEDLINEplus: Heart Diseases - General

- MEDLINEplus: Heart Diseases- Prevention 

- Morbidity and Mortality Chartbook (2002. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)

- National Women's Health Information Center: Heart Disease

 

 

 

 

Last updated: April 22, 2005.
Comments: askmed@wayne.edu
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Guidelines

- Scientific Statements and Practice Guidelines (various topics, American Heart Association)

- National High Blood Pressure Education Program: Working Group report on high blood pressure in pregnancy  (2000. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

- Screening for high blood pressure: recommendations and rationale (Revised 2003. United States Preventive Services Task Force - Independent Expert Panel
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