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Heart Risk Checker
Check your heart disease risk factors and get personalised guidance.
Blood Pressure Explainer
Understand your blood pressure reading and what it means for your health.
Heart Medications: Common Side Effects and What to Do
What to expect from cardiac drugs
Blood Pressure Monitors: Choosing and Using One at Home
How to pick a monitor and get accurate readings
Heart Disease and Your Mental Health
Depression and anxiety after a cardiac event
What Happens at Cardiac Rehabilitation?
What to expect from your rehab programme
Living With Heart Failure: A Practical Guide
Day to day management after diagnosis
Heart Attack Warning Signs Women Often Miss
Why heart attacks look different in women
What is an Aortic Dissection?
It is fairly rare to have an aortic dissection; only one person in 100 000 people in the UK population will be diagnosed with one each year, but it is still...
I Had a Cardiac MRI: A Case Study
Carol was 65 when she first experienced problems. I had been having aches and pains for months, but nothing specific. Just before Christmas two years ago I w...
What Are Aldosterone Antagonists?
Aldosterone antagonists are drugs that are often used to treat heart failure. This occurs when the heart becomes damaged and then cannot act as an efficient...
What is Perfusion Scanning?
Perfusion scanning is basically and advanced form of medical imaging that aims to ‘see’ the passage of fluids through body tissues. The fluids can be oxy...