The following are web links to reputable sources of patient information. Although, these sites provide good general information and provide education about specific disease processes, wellness, or procedures, they do not replace the advice of a trained health professional.

General Information Sites

Good site to learn the basic science of your heart, review procedures or tests http://heartsite.com/

Franklin Institute on Line. Another site to Learn about your heart http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html

Wellness

Diet

AHA Diet Site http://www.deliciousdecisions.org

ADA Web Site  http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/index.html

Create a Heart Healthy Diet http://www.nhlbisupport.com/chd1/create.htm

Lifestyle Cholesterol Management  Using diet to control blood cholesterol

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/30271-4.asp

Exercise

Exercise diary and information from American Heart Association http://www.justmove.org/

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s  Virtual Fitness Room

Good information, including on buying and using home equipment http://www.acsm.org/health%2Bfitness/index.htm

Home treadmill reviews: Treadmill review

Tobacco Aids in Quitting

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/

http://www.lungusa.org/partner/quit/index.html

Quit Smoking Advisor http://www.hon.ch/QuitSmoking/step0.html

Obesity  -  http://www.smallstep.gov

Dash Diet Link: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/index.htm

Sleep Disorders Information  -  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/

Diseases

General Site: Can Search for individual Diseases in Merck Manual

http://www.merckhomeedition.com/home.html

Look at Heart Site (see General Information above)

Atrial Fibrillation

http://members.aol.com/mazern/afib101.htm

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/10829-1.asp

http://www.afadvisor.org/

Cholesterol

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/chol/wyntk.htm

Congenital Heart Disease

Diagrams http://www.kumc.edu/kumcpeds/cardiology/pedcardiodiagrams.html

Resource/Support Group  for all on Congenital Heart http://www.tchin.org/

AHA  http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4565

Congestive Heart Failure

Implantable Devices to Help Heart Failure WebMd

Coronary  Artery Disease  NHLBI site

High Blood Pressure  - General Information

Palpitations

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/11139-1.asp

Post Partum Cardiomyopathy

http://www.ppcmsupport.net/index.html

Pulmonary Hypertension

National Heart Lung Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/lung/other/pph.htm