Women's Heart Resources

Heart Screening Glossary

Understand the medical terms in your personal heart screening by reviewing the heart screening glossary.

Heart Healthy Recipes

Here’s some terrific news: What’s good for your heart is great for your taste buds. As the following recipes show, you don’t have to lose flavor to gain health. Heart-healthy cooking simply means making dishes that are low in saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, and moderate in total fat. As an added bonus, these dishes have fewer calories than those higher in fat. The recipes and tips that follow will even please children. That’s important, because good eating habits need to start early.

• Zucchini Lasagna
• Classic Macaroni and Cheese
• Apple Coffee Cake
• Keeping The “HEART” In Your Favorite Recipes

Women's Heart Organizations

• American College of Cardiology
• American Diabetes Association
• American Heart Association
• American Heart Association: Choose to Move
• American Heart Association: Go Red For Women
• American Heart Association: Scientific Statements & Practice Guidelines
• Cholesterol Lowdown
• Counseling Tools
• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• National Stroke Association
• NHLBI Portion Distortion Quiz
• P.A.D. Peripheral Arterial Disease COALITION
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance
• Questions and Answers About Trans Fat Nutrition Labeling
• US Food & Drug Administration
• WomenHeart-National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease