• Manage Stress for Your Heart Everyone has some stress. But stress can be bad for your heart. If you have heart disease, stress can lead to angina symptoms and maybe a heart attack. Taking steps to manage stress can improve your health and life. Try different ways to reduce stress, such as exercise, deep breathing, meditation, or yoga. Try to change...
  • Healthy Eating: Eating Heart-Healthy Foods Actionset Offers tips for choosing foods based on the basics of a heart-healthy diet, including adding fruits, vegetables, and fiber and limiting sodium and unhealthy fats. Explains how to make small changes to get started.
  • Heart Failure: Compensation by the Heart and Body Heart failure means that your heart muscle doesn't pump as much blood as your body needs. Because your heart can't pump well, your heart and your body try to make up for it. This is called compensation. Your body has a remarkable ability to compensate for heart failure. The body may do such a good job that many people...
  • Heart Valve Repair or Replacement: Before Your Surgery Learn how surgery is done to repair or replace heart valves.
  • Heart-Healthy Eating: Fish and Fish Oil Fish is a lean protein source that contains omega-3 fatty acids. This type of fat can be part of a heart-healthy diet. Fish oil supplements are another way to get omega-3 fatty acids. Research has not proved that fish oil is helpful for everyone.
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy Dilated cardiomyopathy is a serious condition that weakens your heart muscle and causes it to stretch, or dilate. When your heart muscle is weak, it can't pump out blood as well as it should. More blood stays in your heart after each heartbeat. As...
  • Rheumatic Fever and the Heart Rheumatic fever is a bacterial infection that can cause problems with the heart's aortic and mitral valves. Rheumatic fever is caused by certain strains of streptococcal bacteria. A strep throat infection that isn't properly treated can trigger rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever can damage heart muscle and heart valves...
  • Bradycardia (Slow Heart Rate) What is bradycardia? Having bradycardia (say "bray-dee-KAR-dee-uh") means that your heart beats slower than normal. For most adults, a heart rate of about 60 to 100 beats a minute while at rest is considered normal. For some people, bradycardia is healthy and normal. It does not cause any symptoms or problems. In other...
  • Bradycardia (slow heart rate): Fast facts Learn what bradycardia (slow heart rate) is.
  • Focus On: Bradycardia (Slow Heart Rate) After viewing this video, the viewer will understand what happens in the body when you have Bradycardia (slow heart rate).

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