Research on women’s heart health is exploding. Nearly everyweek, it seems, the media report on new ways to prevent and treat heart disease in women—and it can be hard to keep track of it all.

In this updated edition of “The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women,” we have put together all of this new knowledge in one easy-to-use handbook. This guide is part of The Heart Truth, anational public awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute(NHLBI) and many other groups. (See “Getting the Word Out” onpage 10.)

“The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women” will give you newinformation on women’s heart disease and practical suggestionsfor reducing your own personal risk of heart-related problems.You’ll find out about a little-known form of heart disease in women and how to get it diagnosed properly. The handbook will also help you make sense of widely publicized research on the impactof a lower fat diet on women’s heart disease risk.

So welcome to “The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women”—your one-stop source for the latest information on women’s heart diseaseand heart health.

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PDF version, 2.78MB, 127Pages.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) would like to express its gratitude to all of the women whose pictures and stories appear in this handbook.They have shared their stories from the heart to help other women understand that heart disease is not just a statistic, but a disease that affects the lives of real women, of all ages and backgrounds, in every community in our country.

We are also pleased to announce that this edition of “The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women” marks the 20th anniversary of this publication. Since the first edition rolled off the presses in 1987, this best-selling NHLBI book has reached hundreds of thousands of women with a vital, empowering message: You can take action toprotect your heart health.

As always, we hope that the stories of courage and healing in these pages will continue to inspire readers to act to protect their own health and well being. Thank you!

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The 122-page, full-color, twentieth anniversary edition of the Healthy Heart Handbook for Women provides the most recent information on women's heart disease and practical suggestions for reducing your own risk.

"One in 4 women in the United States dies of heart disease, while 1 in 30 dies of breast cancer."

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