Reducing Cardiovascular Risk – Heart Healthy Toolbox

Helping patients understand the warning signs for heart attack and stroke is imperative for improved patient outcomes.

Components

Components are available to download individually or together as the whole section. You can also view all sections of the Heart Healthy Toolbox.

For Patients

• Warning Signs for Heart Attack and Stroke
• Resources for Patients

For Providers

• Resources for Healthcare Professionals (also available below)

Resources for Healthcare Professionals

General CVD Information and Resources

• Life’s Essential 8™: AHA Presidential Advisory on Cardiovascular Health, American Heart Association
  • An enhanced approach to assessing cardiovascular health, with 8 metrics each with a scoring algorithm to help HCPs assess, monitor, and help reduce cardiovascular risk

Women’s Heart Health

• Healthy Heart, Healthy Pregnancies: American Hospital Association
  • Fact sheet for HCPs on heart conditions in pregnancy: prevalence, risk factors, disparate impacts, adverse affects

Communicating About CVD and Reducing Risk

• Behavior Counseling Interventions for CVD Prevention: US Preventive Services
  • Recommendations for, and related resources, for behavior counseling for CVD Prevention
• Heart Disease Communication Toolkit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Tools and resources for helping patients understand heart disease and related conditions, treatments, and ways to reduce risk

Heart Failure

• Heart Failure Guideline for Management: American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Heart Failure Society of America
• Heart Failure Performance and Quality Measures (2024 Update): American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association

Lifestyle Medicine

• American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Supported by independent educational grants from Merck & Co, Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.