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Lower your blood pressure! Eat more soy to prevent a stroke! Increase your intake of omega-3’s! Exercise 30 minutes a day!
Every day, you hear such advice and more. But is it all beneficial for you and your heart? And what are some simple ways to follow these recommendations? And are their alternatives better suited for you?
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- Identify hidden sodium in a restaurant menu
- Avoid painkillers with dangerous side effects
- Control your blood pressure without drugs
- Incorporate easy movement exercises into your daily routine
- Discuss surgery and treatment options with your cardiologist
Each month, the doctors at Harvard Medical School give you the latest advice and recommendations in the pages of the Harvard Heart Letter. Easy-to-read, clear and concise, Harvard Heart Letter is like a monthly conversation with your favorite doctor.
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From the editors of the Harvard Heart Letter. The following are links to online information mentioned in past issues of Harvard Heart Letter or to extra information we couldn't fit into the printed version.
- Atrial ablation on video
- October 2011 references and further reading
- Screening tests to identify problem drinkers
- Finding a yoga teacher
- Grapefruit, drug interactions
- November 2010 references and further reading
- Reporting drug, device problems to the FDA
- Cardiac arrest: When minutes matter
- February 2009 references and further reading
- Links to Home INR monitoring information
- Six minutes to save a life
- Tracking down generic alternatives to brand-name drugs
- Calculating your heart attack risk
- January 2009 references and further reading
- Links to resources for creating a personal health record
- Searching for health information
- December 2008 references and further reading
- Folic acid and folate in foods
- More reading on resistant hypertension
- Do you have sleep apnea?
- Harvard Heart Letter November 2008: References and further reading
- More information on no-surgery valve repair
- More information on the long QT syndrome
- Good sources of potassium
- Harvard Heart Letter October 2008: References and further reading
- Warning signs of a heart attack or stroke
- Ask the Doctor: Guidelines for preventing future strokes after a stroke or TIA
- Checking up on apo B and non-HDL cholesterol
- June 2006 HeartBeat references
- April 2006 HeartBeat references
- Problems with the Pyramid
- Write a letter for MRI-safe pacemakers and ICDs
- Check your fitness
- March 2006 HeartBeat references
- Reading about peripheral arterial disease
- Statement on sterols