Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Peripheral Vascular Disease
One-page article with a complete overview of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and all the different conditions this disease may lead to, including diagrams, causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Carotid Artery Disease
One-page article with useful information on carotid artery disease, including diagrams, causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Heart Healthy Foods
Resource provides great information on the topic of heart healthy foods. The site is fairly in-depth with links scattered throughout for additional information on related subjects.
WebMD
Web Md: Congenital Heart Disease
WebMD offers information on congenital heart disease, including types, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Nclex Rn Questions on Heart Valve Disease 1
Practice questions related to heart valve disease.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Nclex Rn Questions on Heart Valve Disease 2
More questions related to heart valve disease.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Conditions: Heart Attack: Symptoms and Diagnosis
Read a general overview of heart attacks and heart pain, including angina. Content includes information on the difference between stable and unstable angina, and the symptoms of a heart attack.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)
Thorough overview of heart attacks. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention and much more.
Other
Genentech: Heart Attack Fact Sheet
The learning resource is a heart attack fact sheet. Some topics discussed are disease manifestation, aftermath, and symptoms.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Congestive Heart Failure
This site discusses congestive heart failure, different medicines used to treat it, and surgical procedures which may be necessary.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Merck Manual: Heart Failure
This site from the Merck Manual provides an in-depth article about heart failure provides some basic information about the heart, what exactly heart failure is, the two forms of heart failure, the different causes of both forms, the...
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Conditions: Congenital Heart Defects
Learn in-depth information about congenital heart defects and their impact on both children and adults. Information about types of heart defects, their impact on future health, causes and treatment options are also given.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Heart Valves Explained
Learn about the role of heart valves in how your heart functions and what happens when one is defective.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: Peripheral Arterial Disease and Claudication
This article provides information about peripheral arterial disease and claudication (poor circulation) and related health problems it.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Cardiovascular Diseases
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease that affects the cardiovascular system. But the term is usually used to describe diseases that are linked to...
PBS
Nova Online: Troubled Hearts
This site contains pictures of hearts that have some type of problem such as narrowing of the arteries and muscle damage from a heart attack. There is also a terrific picture of the coronary artery system that supplies the heart.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Feeding a Hungry Heart
An intricate three-dimensional network of blood vessels nourishes the heart. Images like this can be used to make detailed comparisons of healthy and diseased hearts.
Other
Nutrition, Health & Heart Disease
This website provides information about nutrition, health, and heart disease. It also discusses specific types of vitamin and mineral supplements you can take to improve or maintain your health.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.29 Cardiovascular Diseases
Discover how cardiovascular disease can be dangerous to human health.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Heart Failure
This site from the MayoClinic.com provides great information on congestive heart failure. The article includes links to topics such as: signs and symptoms, causes, risk factors, screening and diagnosis, complications, treatment and...
Other
Vitamin C and Vascular Disease
How can vitamin C help prevent heart problems and improve the health of those who already have vascular disease? Which animals are unable to produce their own vitamin C? How does vitamin C deficiency affect the body? Learn the answers to...
Read Works
Read Works: Heart Sick
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about gorillas in captivity who are dying from a disease that affects their hearts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Heart Attack
This resource presents brief information defining a heart attack. The article also contains many links to related topics and publications in English and Spanish.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Invention of the Week: Robert Jarvik: Artificial Heart
Read about Robert Koffler Jarvik, the "inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart." This article provides a biography of the inventor, the reasons why he became interested in creating an artificial heart, and his...