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Get tips from real people who have improved their cardiovascular health and prove it’s never too late to embrace a heart-healthy lifestyle.

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Heart Attack Symptoms: What Does a Heart Attack Feel Like?
The signs and symptoms of a heart attack change for each person and often go unrecognized. Here, people share the symptoms of their heart attack in hopes that you might recognize one yourself.
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Heart Attack

• Dad's Heart Attack Was a Wake-Up Call
• Heart Attack at Age 42
• Heart Attack? Me?
• I Didn't Know Symptoms Were Different for Women
• The Role of a Lifetime

High Blood Pressure

• Joe Montana Tackles Hypertension

High Cholesterol

• Paul DiMeo: Extreme Cholesterol Makeover
• How Ray Zapped His Cholesterol

Weight Loss

• Mike Takes Control
• Four Heart Makeovers: Before and After

Healthy Eating

• Healthy Cooking Runs in the Family
• How Ida Keeps it Fresh
• Practicing What He Preaches
• One House, Two Cardiologists
• The Cooking Cardiologist
• The R.D. in the Kitchen

Other Heart Conditions

• 100-Pound Weight Loss: Mark Weaver
• Dropping Six Dress Sizes: Elaine Kay
• No-Salt Cooking Guru
• Gardening Can Help Heal Your Heart
• His & Her Open-Heart Surgery
• Peggy Fleming, Heart Champ
• Conquering Atrial Fibrillation
• Father-Son Dynamic Duo
• Heart of Joy
• Reversing Heart Disease
• My Platform: Women's Heart Health
• Be a Good Sport, Guard Your Heart
• Climbing Mountains, Beating Aortic Valve Stenosis
• When Life Hands You Lemons