Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Cholesterol
One-page overview containing beneficial information on cholesterol including what it is, guidelines for assessing risk factors, and treatment options.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Aneurysm Repair
One-page article describing what is an aneurysm and how is it repaired.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Cardiac Catheterization
One-page article describing the method of cardiac catheterization used for diagnosing coronary artery disease.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Stroke
One-page overview of strokes answers questions about its causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Pericarditis
One-page article answers key questions about pericarditis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: High Blood Pressure
One-page article answers questions about high blood pressure: effects, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Marfan Syndrome
One-page article answers questions about Marfan syndrome: its causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Copd
One-page article answers questions about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Diabetes Mellitus
One-page article on diabetes mellitus answers questions about symptoms, causes, risk factors, and treatment.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Angiography
One-page overview of angiography.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Cardiac Rehabilitation
This tutorial presents information about cardiac rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is necessary to maintain heart health. The heart, angina, exercise, prevention, obesity and other risk factors are covered.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Willem J. Kolff, m.d., ph.d.
A biography and profile of Willem Johan Kolff, an internist who developed artificial organs and limbs and the first heart-lung machine for use in open-heart surgery. Also includes a profile of the artificial heart surgeon he collaborated...
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things: Circulation
Check Steve's cardiovascular health before he starts filming his dangerous wildlife special. Following the activity, read more about the heart, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
Other
Story md.com: Cardiovascular Continuum
The significance of the cardiovascular continuum is its emphasis on prevention. By treating risk factors that occur early in the cardiovascular continuum, like hypertension, diabetes, high blood fat levels, and smoking, it may be...
National Institutes of Health
U.s. National Library of Medicine: Profiles in Science: Adrian Kantrowitz Papers
Adrian Kantrowitz's life and scientific accomplishments are chronicled and catalogued in this extensive exhibition. Kantrowitz was famous for performing the first heart transplant in the United States, and for the life-saving inventions...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's With All the Pressure?
Students learn how to take blood pressure by observing a teacher demonstration and then practicing on fellow classmates in small groups. Once the hands-on component of this activity is completed, the class brainstorms and discusses how...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: Pump, Jump, Thump!
Shows activities children do that keep their hearts healthy. Includes audio narration in 13 additional languages with text in English.
American Heart Association
Aha: High Blood Pressure in Children
The American Heart Association provides a general overview of the health affects of high blood pressure in children. Contains links to related sites.
WebMD
Web Md: Blood Pressure
This site from WebMD Health provides great information on blood pressure. The basic overview discusses what blood pressure is, shows a picture of it, gives a chart to mark it, and includes several links for additional information.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street
Do you know how to get to Sesame Street? This collection is designed to engage preschoolers in everyday learning by teaching core skills in Math, Literacy, STEM, and Social and Emotional Development. Here you'll find hundreds of videos,...
Curated OER
Yahoo! Health: What Is a Heart Attack?
This site from Yahoo! Health discusses a heart attack. Learn what you can do to prevent having a heart attack and check out images showing the parts of the heart, the build up of plaque in arteries, and ECG waves after a heart attack.
Other
Transplant Q/a
Article with questions and answers relating to heart transplants. Great info from who is eligible, what is an average cost, what drugs are related and much more.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Arrhythmias
A fact sheet on arrhythmias tell what they are, what causes them, different types of arrhythmias, risk factors, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis after diagnosis. Numerous diagrams of the heart accompany the article.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: Peripheral Arterial Disease and Claudication
This article provides information about peripheral arterial disease and claudication (poor circulation) and related health problems it.