• Prevention and early recognition of heart failure symptoms
• Discussions with your patients about risk factors
• Earlier and more aggressive disease management, including treatment

We also encourage you to send your patients to hearthub.org/heartfailure for a comprehensive collection of information and tools.

Scientific Statements and Professional Guidelines
The American Heart Association maintains an updated online file of accepted protocols in screening, diagnosing and making treatment recommendations to your patients.

See all Statements and Guidelines on Heart Failure
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Statistics
The American Heart Association is the leading authority on heart and blood vessel diseases. It's important for our volunteers and staff and the public to understand how we derive the annual statistics on this Web site. It's also important to understand their limitations. See the latest statistics on heart disease and stroke.

The Heart Failure Heart Profilers
Encourage your patients to use the Heart Profilers for Patients to create a personalized heart failure treatment options report based on their specific health history and test results. Patients who use the Heart Profilers are more educated about their condition and more likely to comply with their treatment plans.

Heart360
Heart360 is an online tool to help your patients track and manage and report on key health factors:

• High blood pressure
• Cholesterol
• Blood glucose (diabetes)
• Physical activity
• Weight
• Medications

Heart360 is powered by HealthVault, a health technology platform from Microsoft that lets patients store health information in a secure online record that they control. They can easily share their health records with caregivers and healthcare professionals to ensure the most effective, personalized and safe treatment possible.

Patient Information Sheets
Answers By Heart are downloadable, print-on-demand patient information sheets that address cardiovascular conditions, treatments and tests, and lifestyle/risk reduction. Topics are in a question-and-answer format that’s easy to follow and read. Patients can also log and track personal data.  

What Is Congestive Heart Failure?
How Can I Live With Heart Failure?
See all Answers By Heart topics

Patient Education Brochures
Our line of patient and consumer education brochures promote healthy living and managing and preventing disease among patients and at-risk groups. 

Living with Heart Failure
About Heart Transplants: Our Guide for Patients and Their Families
Browse our full line of patient brochures

Active Partnership workbook and DVD
Our award-winning, easy-to-follow program can help your patients get the most from cardiac rehab. 

This content is reviewed regularly. Last updated 04/09/09.