Other Resources

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Offers health and fitness information, travel information, lists of publications, and a search engine to help you find the information you are after. Department of Health and Human Services: Has a home page that will lead you to topic about public health and science. Food and Nutrition Information Center of the National Agricultural Library: Information on dietary guidelines, food and nutrition research, nutrition educational programs, healthy eating, etc. The National Institutes of Health: provides consumer heath information where you can access information about everything imaginable - from preventing heart disease to vasectomy to depression to diabetes. American Heart Association: It contains a simple test for assessing risk of heart disease and loads of information about healthy living, diet, support groups, reference materials, and more. Healthfinder: is a consumer information site from the United States government. Type in any topic and it will take you to on-line publications, databases, other Web sites, support groups, governmental agencies and other organizations that provide reliable information. American Diabetes Association: The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading 501(C)3 nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: is a federal government (National Institutes of Health) site with information on the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders. The information line on heart health (800-575-WELL) gives recorded messages in English about how to prevent and treat high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol. National coalition for Women with Heart Disease: WomenHeart is the nation's only national patient advocacy organization serving the 8,000,000 American women living with heart disease. It provides them with support and information on early detection, accurate diagnosis and proper treatment, and aims to improve their quality of life and healthcare. Be sure to review their Women and Heart Disease Fact Sheet. An Online Source for Information on Heart Disease in Women: This site is sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in collaboration with WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease and the Office on Women's Health of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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