Heart - Stroke - Hypertension

PARL subscribes to the Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center database. This service is available free to anyone with a Library card. Not only can you access thousands of articles, pamphlets and fact sheets on various health topics but also informative video files. Below are links to a sampling of the many resources from the database available on the subject of Heart Disease, Stroke and Hypertension.

What Conditions Can Lead to Heart Failure?

The Myths about Heart Disease and Women

What Should Be the Target Value for My LDL-Cholesterol?

Men's Hearts, Women's Hearts: How are They Different?

How Does a Heart Attack Change your Life?

Are You at Risk for a Stroke?

What are the Warning Signs of a Stroke

What is Hypertension

Understanding High Blood Pressure

Read an Overview of Heart Attack
Read an Overview of High Blood Pressure
Read an Overview of Stroke
Plain Language Overview of Hypertension

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These books are just a small sample of books on the topic of heart, stroke and hypertension from our collection. Please search the online catalogue for a more complete listing.

• Heart healthy foods for life: preventing heart disease through diet and nutrition
• Stroke diaries: a guide for survivors and their families
• 500 low-cholesterol recipes: flavorful heart-healthy dishes your whole family will love [electronic resource (PDF eBook)]
• American Heart Association's low-fat, low-cholesterol cookbook: delicious recipes to help lower your cholesterol
• The Harvard Medical School guide to lowering your blood pressure
• Mayo Clinic on high blood pressure
• The 10 best questions for recovering from a heart attack: the script you need to take control of your health
• Seven steps to stop a heart attack
• Change in the weather: life after stroke
• Strong women, strong hearts: proven strategies to prevent and reverse heart disease now
• The stroke book: a guide to life after stroke for survivors and those who care for them

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• heart disease
• hypertension
• cerebrovascular disease

Pictou County Heart & Stroke Support Group - New Glasgow
Contact: Susan Chickness, President
Phone: (902) 752-3898
Email: schickness@hotmail.com
UCT Building behind Summer Street, New Glasgow
Group of cardiac patients and their partners who gather together on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7 pmfrom September through June for information sharing, shared concerns, guest speakers and social activities. Stroke survivors and their families are also welcome. Contact for more information.

Antigonish/Guysborough Heart&Stroke Support Group
Contact: Joyce Feltmate
Phone: (902) 783-2252
Community group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at St. Martha's Hospital in Antigonish. (No summer meetings) For residents of Antigonish and Guysborough counties. Contact for more information on the group and specific meeting times.

Heart Health Clinic - Antigonish
St. Martha's Hospital
Antigonish
Phone: (902) 867-4720
This clinic is located in the Emergency/Ambulatory care department of St. Martha's Hospital. Referral is by physicians only. It provides a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care that includes clinical assessment, risk factor modification and education.

Heart to Heart program - Antigonish
St. Martha's Hospital
Contact: Lena MacDonald
Phone: (902) 867-4720
An education and support program of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada for people at high risk for cardiovascular disease.

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia
Park Lane – Mall Level 3
5657 Spring Garden Road, Box 245
Halifax, NS B3J 3R4
Telephone (902) 423-7530
Toll free 1-800-423-4432
Fax (902) 492-1464
Email: contactus@heartandstroke.ns.ca
Web: http://www.heartandstroke.ns.ca

Maritime Heart Center
5991-508 Spring Garden Road (Halifax Professional Center)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 1Y6
Phone: (902) 446-3669
Fax: (902) 446-4346
E-mail: info@maritimeheartcenter.ca
Website: http://maritimeheartcenter.ca/

Health Connections Resource Centre
HEALTH CONNECTIONS in the People's Place Library. 283 Main Street, Antigonish, NS B2G 2C3
Tel: (902) 863-7369
Fax: (902) 863-9318
Email: smithlj@gasha.nshealth.ca
Provides free health information and support.

Mayo Clinic Heart Disease Center
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-disease/HB99999.

Mayo Clinic High Blood Pressure Center
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/high-blood-pressure/HI99999

Mayo Clinic on Stroke
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stroke/DS00150