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Heart Insight

Sign up for a FREE subscription to Heart Insight, our quarterly lifestyle magazine with trusted advice on cardiovascular health and wellness. Healthcare providers may order free bulk copies of Heart Insight or sign up for an individual subscription.

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American Heart Association patient and consumer education materials cover a wide range of cardiovascular health and stroke topics. For sound medical information developed with patients in mind, browse our library of brochures and videos.
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Patient Programs/Sites

Lead your patients to a source you can trust! Visit HeartHub, the premier online cardiovascular and stroke information center that provides patients and caregivers tools to manage their health.

Go Red For Women for Professionals has consolidated information for professionals on women and cardiovascular disease. Find guidelines, physician tools, patient education materials, statistics and special reports.

The Heart Of Diabetes is a free program that helps your patients learn the connection between cardiovascular disease, diabetes and insulin resistance.

Register for free e-newsletters about heart health topics. The American Heart Association produces several e-newsletters with the latest news and updates about numerous heart health topics. Our current e-newsletters cover arrhythmia, cholesterol, heart failure, high blood pressure and peripheral artery disease. Register today!

Cardiology Patient Page

Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association features easy-to-use pages for patient education. It's simple, accurate descriptions of critical concepts in cardiovascular diagnosis, testing, methods and therapies. Share this information with your patients as an educational tool. Some topics are also available for PDA download.

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Risk Assessment

Do your patients understand their risk for heart disease? Help them take this simple online risk assessment for estimating the risk of having a heart attack or dying of coronary heart disease in the next 10 years. Then, discuss their results with them.

Patient Education Materials

Spanish Materials

For sound medical information that’s easy to read and understand, cost effective and developed with patients in mind, you can rely on American Heart Association and American Stroke Association consumer and patient education materials. Topics include risk factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke, risk assessment, conditions, procedures and care.

View brief descriptions of products through our online catalogs, request samples, or contact our national distributor, Krames, to order.

Patient Education Sheets

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Download free Answers by Heart patient education sheets that address cardiovascular conditions, treatments and tests, and lifestyle and risk reduction. The topics are presented in a question-and-answer format that’s brief, easy to follow and easy to read. They also allow patients to log and track personal data. Some sheets are also available in Spanish.

Treatment Decision Tools

Access the Professional Heart Profilers ^TM, our database of peer-reviewed, journal-published studies accessed using virtual case modeling, the next generation search technology.

You can also encourage your patients to make more informed treatment decisions. Recommend the Patient Heart Profilers^TM to your patients and ask them to bring their information to their next appointment.

Current topics:

Professional	Patient
Atrial Fibrillation	Atrial Fibrillation
Cholesterol	Cholesterol
Coronary Artery Disease	Coronary Artery Disease
Heart Failure	Heart Failure
High Blood Pressure	High Blood Pressure