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Beating Heart Disease: Strategies for a healthy heart

If you follow the news about heart disease closely, it’s easy to be overwhelmed or confused about what puts you at risk and how you can protect yourself. This report helps you identify the risk factors you can control, which range from medical conditions such as high blood pressure to lifestyle choices such as an unhealthy diet or lack of exercise. Learn more »

Hypertension: Controlling the "silent killer"

An alarming one in three American adults has high blood pressure, known medically as hypertension. If you are among them, you can take steps today to protect yourself from the damage it causes. This report lays out a step-by-step lifestyle program you can use to lower your blood pressure, and also covers blood pressure monitoring and medications. Learn more »

Harvard Heart Letter

When it comes to your heart, you can’t afford to act on dubious or downright false information. Now there’s a source of expert advice and authoritative heart research that comes to you directly from the more than 8,000 doctors and researchers at Harvard Medical School. The Harvard Heart Letter provides eight pages of monthly heart news for readers who may already suffer from heart disease (or their family members) and for people concerned about their risk who wish to take steps... Learn more »

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure

High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been called the biggest threat to health in the United States. Nearly half of all adults have blood pressure that is too high. Sometimes, the only way to achieve a healthy blood pressure is to take medicines. However, the latest national expert guidelines emphasize that nutrition, exercise, stress management and mind-body techniques also have considerable value. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure tells you about how you can... Learn more »

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