Mild Heart Disease

  1. Heart Healthy Chocolate?

    Tip - How can you help lower your parent's blood pressure and put a smile on her face? Give her a small square of dark chocolate every day. In the July 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found reason to celebrate, reporting that 30 calories of dark chocolate eaten daily for 18 weeks significantly decreased blood pressure...

  2. React FAST to a Possible Stroke

    Tip - If you think your parent may have had a stroke, act F.A.S.T.:

  3. Monitoring Fluid Retention for Heart Failure

    Tip - If your parent has heart failure, one of the important symptoms that needs to be monitored is fluid retention. Make a daily weigh-in part of the morning routine: your parent should step on the scale at the same time each day, after urinating but before breakfast. Write the weight down in a notebook and keep track...

  4. How to Tell if Someone Is Having a Heart Attack

    Article - Learn how to recognize early heart attack symptoms and common heart attack signs to avoid heart attack risks at Caring.com.

  5. TIA: How to Know if Someone Is at Risk for a Stroke

    Article - Understanding someone's risk of a transient ischemic attack (TIA), or ministroke, including the symptoms of a TIA and what you should do if someone has a stroke or a ministroke.

  6. Keep a Notebook to Help Manage Heart Failure

    Tip - Careful, accurate records are vital when your parent is dealing with heart failure. Daily weigh-ins, symptom status, medications, side effects -- trying to keep track of everything can cause even the most organized person's head to spin...

  7. Stock the Freezer With Heart-Healthy Meals

    Tip - If someone you're caring for has heart problems and is living on his own, it may be difficult for him to get meals on the table, let alone prepare food that's low in sodium and saturated fats. To make it easier to eat healthfully, help him create and freeze enough heart-healthy meals to last a week or two...

  8. What is giving my father more frequent heart palpitations?

    Question - There are a number of possible causes. Sometimes palpitations (feeling the heartbeat) are the result of anxiety and have nothing to do with a heart abnormality. Palpitations can also be caused by irregular heartbeats, which may feel like extra beats or skipped beats. Even though this is common and usually isn't serious, it can still be worrisome...
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  9. How much do you think you know about heart disease?

    Poll - How much do you think you know about heart disease? (Choose one.)