Learn About Heart-Healthy Living. CONNECT WITH US. About The Heart Truth® A national health education program that raises awareness about heart disease and encourages people to live a heart-healthy lifestyle.

Take action to protect OurHearts Find heart-healthy tips to help you take action to reduce the risk of heart disease and its risk factors. Tools and Materials. Use these resources to bring greater attention to heart disease and its risk factors. Help those in your community prevent heart disease. Healthy Hearts Network.

The Heart Truth Healthy Hearts Network is a network of organizations around the country committed to promoting and raising awareness about heart health.

Learn more. Health Professionals. Community Subcontract Program. The Heart Truth Community Subcontract Program supports organizations in executing projects that will reduce the burden of heart disease and encourage healthy behavior change to improve heart health.

Related Initiatives. Get Involved in American Heart Month. February is American Heart Month. Join us in raising awareness about how Americans can prevent heart disease. Celebrate Heart Health on National Wear Red Day®. Join NHLBI, The Heart Truth, and organizations around the country on National Wear Red Day®, celebrated each year on the first Friday in February, to bring greater attention to heart disease awareness as the leading cause of death for Americans.

Use the poster, stickers, and social media resources below to promote Wear Red Day in your community. Heart Health and Pregnancy. During pregnancy, your heart is working harder than usual to pump blood to you and your baby.

Sometimes, the extra stress exposes risks to your heart health that were there before you got pregnant. Learn more about your heart health and pregnancy.

Check Out DASH Eating Plan Resources. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension DASH eating plan is flexible and scientifically proven to lower blood pressure as fast as two weeks. Learn more about the initiative and explore the priority areas below to get resources to help you take action.

To help make communities strong and healthy, Million Hearts ® supports strategies for decreasing tobacco use, physical inactivity, and particle pollution exposure. Learn More. Share these heart-healthy messages, PSAs, and graphics from our campaign partner toolkit.

Encourage older adults to take charge of their heart health by taking small steps to lower their risk for heart disease and stroke. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to search. Home About About Home Building Healthy Communities Tobacco Use Physical Activity Particle Pollution and Heart Disease.

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Data Fact Sheets ABCS of Heart Health Cardiac Rehabilitation At A Glance Improving Medication Adherence Among Patients with Hypertension. Section Navigation. Million Hearts ® Print.

Minus Related Pages. Share resources for the flu season. Million Hearts ® Priorities Million Hearts ® is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes within 5 years.

Healthy Hearts integrates electronic health record data and population health data to create a robust picture of community health. Healthy Hearts uses open source software designed by the Office of the National Coordinator ONC : popHealth®.

popHealth® is Meaningful Use certified, and its reports measure the Clinical Quality Measures needed for Meaningful Use.

Clinics are able to use the dashboards to identify patients in need of additional services, follow up calls or referrals to community services for self-management. Clinic leadership uses dashboard reports to review workflow, patient education, and provider knowledge in order to improve the quality of care.

In addition, clinical dashboards are augmented with population level data analyzed by IDPH epidemiologists.

These data are used to enhance local collaboration. Using IPLAN, community needs assessment, local health departments, providers, and community agencies collaborate to determine how best to improve the state of cardiovascular disease in their county.

IDPH brings quality improvement expertise to guide the collaborative to implement local improvement activities. Such activities have included:. Through effective collaboration and the above activities, 2 counties have already improved hypertension management in over people diagnosed with hypertension.

Heart disease refers to several diseases of the heart. The most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease, which can cause a heart attack.

Heart disease is the single leading cause of death in Illinois and the United States and is responsible for nearly 80 percent of cardiovascular deaths. In , nearly 25, deaths in adults age 35 and older in Illinois were due to heart disease.

There are several risk factors that can increase the likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to search. Español Other Languages. Resources for Individuals and Patients American Heart Month Print. Minus Related Pages. On This Page. Who Should Use This Toolkit?

How Do I Use This Toolkit? Tools and Resources for Patients Printable and Shareable Handouts Learn About High Blood Pressure Spread the Word Social Media Graphics. Printable and Shareable Handouts. Managing My Blood Pressure [PDF — KB] Patients can use this printable list of questions to ask their health care team to help them manage their blood pressure.

Also available en español [PDF — KB]. My Blood Pressure Log [PDF — KB] People can use this printable log to keep track of their blood pressure measurements at home. My First Blood Pressure Visit [PDF — KB] Encourage patients to record important blood pressure—related information on this page before their appointments.

The Correct Way to Measure Blood Pressure Share this graphic with patients, family, and friends to show them the correct way to measure blood pressure.

Individuals and Patients Pulse Check: Live to the Beat Help patients learn how to manage their conditions, move more, eat healthier, stress less, and work with their health care team.

Live Big. Self-Measured Blood Pressure SMBP Monitoring: Resources for Patients Share these resources with patients to show how SMBP monitoring, also known as home blood pressure monitoring, plus clinical support can help people with hypertension lower their blood pressure.

Measure Your Blood Pressure Use this website to teach patients why they should measure their blood pressure regularly and where they can get it checked. Prevent and Manage High Blood Pressure Help patients manage high blood pressure with this plain language content about making healthy choices and managing other health conditions.

Pregnant People High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy Use this website to help describe why high blood pressure during pregnancy should be avoided and what patients can do to manage high blood pressure before, during, and after pregnancy.

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