About's Heart Disease Site
Weekly features and net links to heart disease-related sites.

Exercise and Heart Disease
From Johns Hopkins - Benefits of Regular Exercise, Guidelines for Safe Exercise, Calculating Your Target Heart Rate

The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women
From the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Detailed information about cardiovascular disease, the seven major risk factors, six self-help strategies, a food guide and recipes along with an extensive resource list.

Women and Heart Disease
From the American Heart Association - Heart attack is the No. 1 killer of American women. The AHA has identified several risk factors for coronary heart disease (heart attack). Some of them can be changed, and some cannot. But the more risk factors a woman has, the greater the chance that she will develop heart disease.

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