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Mother Waiting for a Heart Transplant Helps Others as a 'Go Red for Women' AmbassadorMother of two, Zuleyma Santos, is working with the American Heart Association to raise awareness about the dangers …

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Woman describes surviving sudden cardiac arrest at age 22: "It can happen at any time to anybody"Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women in the U.S. Each year, more than 350,000 out-o …

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Blood Pressure Crises Sending More Americans to the ERHospitalizations for dangerously high blood pressure more than doubled in the United States from 2002 to 2014, new research shows.This jump in hos …

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A routine checkup led him to fix a leaky heart valve before it became a problemWhen Randy Fritz went to his primary care physician for a checkup, he hadn't been to see his doctor in more than a decade …

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American Heart Association releases new CPR guidelines on how to save patients with COVID-19New CPR protocols were released by the American Heart Association on Monday, January 24, 2022.The new protoc …

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Everything You Need to Know About Doing CPRCardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a hands-on emergency intervention used to restore breathing and a heartbeat in a person who has gone into cardiac arre …

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