- Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA)
Organization promoting scientific research into all aspects of heart failure. The Heart Failure Society of American provides a forum for medical research, information for patients, and background facts about the cardiovascular disease.
www.hfsa.org
- Heart Failure Online
Dedicated to provinding information about congestive heart failure. Includes heart health basics, heart failure causes and symptoms, prevention, and treatment. In English and Spanish.
www.heartfailure.org
- Heart Failure Awareness
Learning modules that explain congestive heart failure, its symptoms and stages, and treatments to control it. From the Heart Failure Society of America.
www.abouthf.org
- Heart Failure Fact Sheet
Fact sheet about congestive heart failure from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Learn what causes the condition, what the signs and symptoms are, and heart failure treatments and prevention.
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Hf/HF_WhatIs.html
- eMedicine.com: Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema
Background and medical details for congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema. Includes heart disease symptoms, causes, tests, treatments, and medications.
www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic108.htm
- MedlinePlus: Heart Failure
Collection of news, research, and other resources about congestive heart failure. Find sites about heart failure diagnosis, treatment, prevention, clinical trials, and coping with the condition.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/heartfailure.html
- CHFpatients.com
Information, resources, and support for those with congestive heart failure. Covers types of heart failure, exercise and diet tips, heart failure treatments and medications, and facts about heart transplants.
www.chfpatients.com
- MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Heart Failure
Facts and treatment information about congestive heart failure, the condition that occurs when the heart fails to pump enough blood for the body. Find out about how heart failure is diagnosed, its symptoms, and living with the disease.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000158.htm
- Mayo Clinic: Heart Failure
Fact sheet about congestive heart failure, the cardiovascular condition in which the heart's ability to pump blood weakens. Find out about risk factors, screening and diagnosis, prevention, and living with the condition.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-failure/DS00061
- MedicineNet: Congestive Heart Failure
Online reference to congestive heart failure, with information about what causes the condition, what its symptoms are, how it is diagnosed, and the long-term outlook for CHF patients.
www.medicinenet.com/congestive_heart_failure/article.htm
- Cut to the Heart
Online exhibit about congestive heart failure and its treatment. Includes a map of the human heart and its pumping cycle, details about pioneers of heart surgery, and examples of heart disease. From PBS.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart
- American Heart Association: Living With Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure information and updates from the American Heart Association. Learn about heart failure symptoms, treatments, complications, medications, and helpful lifestyle and diet changes.
www.americanheart.org/chf
- Heart Canada: Heart Failure
Answers to frequently asked questions about congestive heart failure, the cardiovascular condition in which the heart can no longer pump sufficient blood to the body. Includes causes, symptoms, and treatments.
www.heartcanada.com/heartfailure.php
- Cleveland Clinic Heart Center: Heart Failure
Resources for understanding and living with heart failure, from the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center. Find out what the causes and symptoms of congestive heart failure are, and what treatments are available.
www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/guide/disease/heartfailure.asp?firs...
- Managing Congestive Heart Failure
(PDF)
Learning guide for patients with congestive heart failure, with information about handling medications, nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle changes. In PDF format, from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
ww2.heartandstroke.ca/images/English/Managing_CHF.pdf
- British Heart Foundation: Heart Failure
Guide to understanding heart failure, the condition in which the heart becomes less efficient in pumping blood. Learn about its causes, the medical treatments, and what patients can do.
www.bhf.org.uk/hearthealth/index.asp?secID=1&secondlevel=77&thirdlevel=352
- Let's Talk About Heart Failure
(PDF)
Guide for heart failure patients, families, and caregivers from the Heart Foundation of Australia. Find information about the causes of heart failure and how to manage the disease. In PDF format.
www.heartfoundation.com.au/downloads/heartfailureinfosheet.pdf
- 1on1health.com: Heart Failure
Offers facts about heart failure and day-to-day lifestyle changes that can help you deal with the condition. From GlaxoSmithKline.
www.1on1health.com/1on1HealthWeb/controller/TopicHomepageView/TopicID=1000/...
- NHS Direct: Heart Failure
Information about heart failure from the British National Health Service. Find out what causes the heart to pump less blood, how heart failure is diagnosed, what the treatments are, and how to lessen your risk.
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/he.asp?articleID=189
- Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation: Heart Failure
Fact sheet about congestive heart failure from the Heart and Stoke Foundation of Canada. Covers the types of heart failure, its causes and symptoms, and what to expect from diagnosis and treatment.
ww2.heartandstroke.ca/Page.asp?PageID=1613&ContentID=19579&ContentTypeID=1
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