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Heart-Healthy Tips for Spring from Mended Hearts

WEBTake advantage of it by making fresh fruits and vegetables a mainstay of your spring diet. Incorporate more salads into your diet, and aim to get 10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. That’s the number of servings recommended to reduce your risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, cardiovascular disease and more.

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Your Mouth Is a Window to Heart Health

WEBThe American Heart Association recently released a study that says brushing your teeth twice a day for at least two minutes may lower your risk of cardiovascular diseases. Previous studies found a link between heart disease and periodontal disease, a condition marked by gum infection, gum inflammation and tooth damage.

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Minding Your Heart Health

WEBMinding Your Heart Health. By Paula Felps. Marvin Keyser knows there’s nothing funny about open heart surgery, but that doesn’t keep him from making people laugh about it. “When you’re laughing, you can’t cry and you can’t frown,” says Keyser, Mended Hearts southern regional director and president of Chapter 161 (Hollywood, Florida).

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How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

WEB#DidYouKnow April is Mended Little Hearts 20th Anniversary To celebrate serving the #CHDCommunity for 20 years we want to hear from YOU! You are what makes MLH what it is today. Get Involved with our 20th Anniversary Celebrations: 💪Growing with MLH 🥗20th Anniversary Cookbook 🎥20th Anniversary Video Campaign 💌Send a Message to a #chd …

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A case of HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMAYOPATHY Mended Little …

WEBGood day everyone. I have a relation with HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMAYOPATHY. How can she be helped? She is about 29 years. I attached a video of the diagn-----

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Mended Hearts Non-profit Organization

WEBMended Hearts is a non-profit organization that has been offering the gift of hope to heart disease patients, their families and caregivers. Learn more.

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Chronic Illness and Mental Health: 9 Tips for Self-Care

WEBAsking a trusted friend or relative for help with meals or childcare. Asking someone to attend appointments with you (in person or via video chat) to take notes and ask questions. Eliminating or reducing any unnecessary commitments that add stress. Keeping a list of positive thoughts or gratitude language. 7.

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Medicare and Heart Disease: What’s Covered and What’s Not

WEBMedicare will cover many diagnostics tests used to diagnose heart disease. Medicare also covers cardiac rehabilitation programs and cardiovascular behavioral therapy if you have a qualifying health condition. If necessary, Medicare will cover chronic care management services as well. Medicare doesn’t cover 100 percent of all costs.

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CHD Facts and Statistics

WEBCHDs are the most common birth defects. CHDs occur in almost 1% of births. An approximate 100-200 deaths are due to unrecognized heart disease in newborns each year. These numbers exclude those dying before diagnosis. Nearly 40,000 infants in the U.S. are born each year with CHDs. CHDs are as common as autism and about twenty-five times …

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Supporting Patients with Aortic Disease

WEBThrough this collaboration, Mended Hearts and Aortic Hope will provide hope and support to patients with aortic disease throughout their journey, along with educational resources to keep them well-informed when making healthcare decisions. Aortic Hope members will have the option of participating in Mended Hearts’ Accredited Visitor training

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'One Size Fits All' Medicine is Not Fit For All

WEBMended Hearts Stories - 'One Size Fits All' Medicine is Not Fit For All According to the American Heart Association, African Americans have a higher risk and higher mortality rate for cardiovascular disease, and they are less likely than whites to be treated according to evidence-based guidelines. These disparities exist even when the patients’ income, …

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CHD Awareness Week

WEBCHD Awareness Week Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) Awareness Week 2022 February 7th – 14th 2022 . Mended Little Hearts® is dedicated to raising awareness for CHD, and in 2022 we hope you will join us all month long! Below is a list of activities, helpful tools and resources, and campaigns for you to use to raise awareness with your family and friends.

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Intense Cardiac Rehab: Not for the Faint of Heart

WEBIntense cardiac rehab includes up to 72 sessions (as many as six sessions per day), and incorporates exercise and in-depth education about nutrition, stress management, meditation, and the relationship between lifestyle and heart health. ICR programs began gaining traction in 2010 when legislation was passed that provided new parameters for

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The Financial Impact of CHD on Families

WEBThe financial impact on your family is probably the second-most stressful part of having a child with CHD. We make health care decisions based on what is best for our children, not what is best for our wallets, so we are often faced with intimidating medical bills after a hospital stay. This can cause a huge strain on young families.

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The Big Data Revolution

WEBMended Hearts Stories - The Big Data Revolution Big data has the potential to vastly change the field of cardiovascular health care in a variety of ways — from helping to identify risk factors and streamlining trials to improving patient care and monitoring how well people respond to therapies. But what exactly do we mean by the term “big data”?

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Telemedicine's Expanding Role in Cardiac Care

WEBTelecardiology, a branch of telemedicine, employs modern technology for real-time, remote diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. It can be used to evaluate heart disease, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrest and arrhythmias. Telecardiology’s applications are extensive and can occur before, during and after hospitalization, giving it

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