Education and Communications Tools
Heart Profilers Treatment Decision Tools
Get more involved in your care with a FREE, confidential, personalized treatment options report. Just register and complete a 20-minute profile with your test results. You’ll get a complete report of current treatment options along with possible side effects, success rates and questions to ask your healthcare provider. You can print your report to discuss with your healthcare team. You’ll also have access to medical journal articles and research studies written in an easy-to-understand format.
Printable Patient Information Sheets
Downloadable and print information sheets about cardiovascular conditions, treatments and tests, and healthy living. Each sheet follows an easy question-and-answer format and has space for adding more questions to ask your healthcare professional.
What Is Congestive Heart Failure?
How Can I Live With Heart Failure?
See all Answers By Heart topics
Brochures
Get the facts on reducing your risks or managing a heart condition with our extensive line of brochures. Individuals may order one each of up to 10 brochures free of charge, online or by calling our National Service Center at 1-800-AHA-USA1 (1-800-242-8721) anytime.
Professionals may order quantities for their offices through Krames.
Living With Heart Failure
About Heart Transplants: Our Guide for Patients and Their Families
About Your Bypass Surgery: Our guide to understanding coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Caregiver Brochure
Sex and Heart Disease
Shaking Your Salt Habit: Our guide to reducing sodium to lower your blood pressure
Walking for a Healthy Heart: Our Guide to Help You Start a Regular Walking Program
Easy Food Tips for Heart-Healthy Eating
See our full line of brochures
PACE Guide Sheet for Medical Visits
This guide can help you communicate with your healthcare providers to get the most of your appointments. It prompts you to share information, clarify instructions and make sure you understand explanations. There’s space for notes about questions and concerns so you’ll remember to bring them up.
Medical Contact List
Keep this sheet next to your phone for an instant directory of your healthcare providers, emergency contacts and caregiving supporters.
Heart Failure E-newsletter
Sign up for our free monthly e-newsletter to get the latest news, tips and tools for living with heart failure delivered right to your inbox.
Heart Insight Magazine
Free, online-only quarterly magazine to help patients, their families and caregivers manage and prevent cardiovascular disease and related conditions.
Active Partnership Program
Our award-winning, easy-to-follow cardiac rehabilitation workbook and DVD can help you and your loved ones get involved in managing your condition.
Tracking Tools
Heart360 Cardiovascular Wellness Center
It’s easy to keep a record of your cholesterol levels, blood pressure, physical activity, weight and more with our secure online tracking tools. Plug in the goals your doctor has set and watch your progress with charts and graphs. Print detailed reports to take to your medical appointments. Caregivers can set up multiple accounts so they can track their own health as well as their loved ones’.
Printable Medication Tracker
Download and print as many copies as you need to keep track of your medications. Take your trackers to your medical appointments so your healthcare team can see everything you’re taking.
Cholesterol Tracker
A printable sheet for tracking your cholesterol levels and the steps you’re taking to manage them.
Blood Pressure Tracker
Print a full-size version to keep by your home monitor and a wallet-size to note readings at medical appointments or public monitors. Complete with instructions for taking your blood pressure correctly.
Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Weight Tracker (PDF Download)
One-stop tracking of three different risk factors.
Personal Health Record Resource Center
Keeping a total personal health record (PHR) will give you and your healthcare providers the most complete picture available of your current and past health. Learn the benefits and find out which PHR is right for you.
Other American Heart Association Web sites to help you manage your condition:
Cholesterol
High Blood Pressure
Diet and Nutrition
Physical Activity
Weight Management
Quitting Smoking
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Diabetes
Caregivers
This content is reviewed regularly. Last updated 03/09/09.
