Screening and Prevention

Watching your diet, exercising and knowing your family history are just a few ways that you can help prevent heart disease.

• High Blood Pressure
• Hypertension
• Hypotension 

Oral Screening

Other Screenings

• Cardiac Catheterization
• Echocardiography
• Holter Monitoring
• Multiple-Gated Acquisition (MUGA) Scan
• Stress Test
• Technetium Heart Scan
• Transesophageal Echocardiography

Find more tips and information about preventing heart disease from the following:

Alternative Therapies

• Acupressure
• Angina
• Astragalus
• Chondroitin
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Chelation Therapy
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Onion
• Orthomolecular Medicine
• Selenium

Cholesterol

• Angina
• Atherosclerosis
• Cholesterol Lowering Drugs
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Diets
• Hyperlipoproteinemia

Diabetes

• Antidiabetic Drugs
• Blood Sugar Tests
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Gestational Diabetes
• Diabetes Insipidus
• Pancreas Transplantation

Exercise

• Angina
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Exercise
• Obesity
• Tai Chi
• Yoga

Hypertension

• Hyperaldosteronism
• Hypertension
• Mallory-Weiss Syndrome
• Preeclampsia and Eclampsia
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency

Nutrition

• Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
• Diets
• Nutrition through an Intravenous Line/Tube Feeding

Risk Factors

• Cholesterol Lowering Drugs
• Cholesterol Test
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Exercise
• Hypertension
• Obesity
• Smoking-Cessation Drugs
• Stress
• Stress Reduction

Smoking

• Coronary Artery Disease
• Hypertension
• Smoking-Cessation Drugs
• Peripheral Vascular Disease

Stress Management

• Aromatherapy
• Biofeedback
• Exercise
• Massage
• Stress
• Stress Reduction
• Tai Chi

Weight Management

• Diets
• Exercise
• Obesity
• Obesity Surgery