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• Heart Disease Section
  • How the heart works
    • How the heart works: the basics
    • The heart's electrical system
    • The heart's blood supply
    • The heart valves
  • Preventing heart disease
    • Preventing heart disease - Smoking
    • Preventing heart disease - Cholesterol
    • Preventing heart disease - Healthy eating/alcohol
    • Preventing heart disease - Physical activity
    • Preventing heart disease - High blood pressure
    • Preventing heart disease - Diabetes
    • Preventing heart disease - Stress
  • Tests to investigate heart disease
    • NHS Tayside Information on cardiac catheterisation
  • Angina
    • Symptoms and Causes of Angina
    • Tests and Diagnosis for Angina
      • NHS Tayside Information on Cardiac Catheterisation
    • Treatments of Angina
      • How to take your GTN
    • Managing Angina
      • Getting help to stop smoking
      • Cholesterol and Angina
      • High Blood Pressure and Angina
      • Exercise and Angina
      • Diabetes and Angina
      • Healthy Eating and Angina
      • Weight Control and Angina
      • Stress and Angina
    • Living with Angina
      • Controlling your Anxiety
      • Driving with Angina
  • High Blood Pressure
    • High Blood Pressure: Symptoms & Causes
    • High Blood Pressure: Tests and Diagnosis
    • High Blood Pressure: Treatments
      • Drugs used to treat high blood pressure
    • Managing High Blood Pressure
      • Weight Control and High Blood Pressure
      • Healthy Eating and High Blood Pressure
      • Salt and High Blood Pressure
      • Physical Activity and High Blood Pressure
      • Alcohol and High Blood Pressure
      • Smoking and High Blood Pressure
    • Living with High Blood Pressure
  • Atrial Fibrillation
    • Symptoms & causes of atrial fibrillation
    • Tests & diagnosis of atrial fibrillation
    • Treatment of atrial fibrillation
      • NHS Tayside Cardioversion Information
    • Managing atrial fibrillation
      • Weight control and atrial fibrillation
      • Healthy eating and atrial fibrillation
      • Physical activity and atrial fibrillation
      • Alcohol intake and atrial fibrillation
    • Living with atrial fibrillation
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome (incl Heart Attack)
    • Symptoms and causes of Acute Coronary Syndrome
    • Tests & Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome
      • NHS Tayside Information on Cardiac Catheterisation
    • Treatment for Acute Coronary Syndrome
      • NHS Tayside information on cardiac catheterisation
    • Recovery after Acute Coronary Syndrome
      • ACS: The first few days
        • NHS Tayside Pacemaker Leaflet
      • ACS: The first few weeks
        • Cardiac rehabilitation
          • Phase 1
          • Phase 2
          • Phase 3
          • Phase 4
    • ACS: Getting back to everyday life
      • Emotional recovery following ACS
      • Reducing stress
      • Returning to work
      • Driving following ACS
      • Sex following ACS
      • ACS: Information for family & friends
    • Managing your risk factors for ACS
      • Smoking and ACS
      • High cholesterol and ACS
      • Healthy eating and ACS
      • Physical activity and ACS
      • Weight control and ACS
      • Alcohol and ACS
  • Heart Failure Section
    • Symptoms and causes of heart failure
    • Diagnsosing Heart Failure
    • Managing Heart Failure
    • Living with heart failure
  • Air Travel Information
  • Patient Stories - Heart Disease
• Stroke Section
  • Stroke FAQs
  • Preventing stroke
    • Preventing stroke - high blood pressure
    • Preventing stroke - smoking as a risk factor
    • Preventing stroke - Cholesterol
    • Preventing stroke - healthy eating
    • Preventing stroke - physical activity
    • Preventing stroke - diabetes
    • Preventing stroke - Atrial Fibrillation
      • NHS Tayside Cardioversion Information
  • What is a stroke?
    • Types of stroke
    • The effects of stroke
    • Diagnosing stroke
    • Your recovery - Early days
    • Stroke rehabilitation
      • Centre for Brain Injury Rehabilitation
    • Longer term recovery after a stroke
    • Being at home after a stroke
      • NHS Tayside Stroke Liaison Service
    • Thoughts and feelings
  • Stroke in younger people
    • What has happened?
    • Recovering from a stroke
    • Life after a stroke: Family and social life
    • Life after a stroke: Finance and work issues
  • Transient ischaemic attacks
    • Symptoms and causes of TIA’s
    • How are TIAs diagnosed?
    • Understanding your treatment
    • Life after TIA - Reducing the risk
  • High Blood Pressure
    • High Blood Pressure: Symptoms & Causes
    • High Blood Pressure: Tests & Diagnosis
    • High Blood Pressure: Treatments
      • Drugs used to treat high blood pressure
    • Managing High Blood Pressure
      • Weight Control and High Blood Pressure
      • Healthy Eating and High Blood Pressure
      • Salt and High Blood Pressure
      • Physical Activity and High Blood Pressure
      • Alcohol and High Blood Pressure
      • Smoking and High Blood Pressure
    • Living with High Blood Pressure
  • Atrial Fibrillation
    • Symptoms & causes of atrial fibrillation
    • Tests & diagnosis of atrial fibrillation
    • Treatment of atrial fibrillation
    • Managing atrial fibrillation
      • Weight control and atrial fibrillation
      • Healthy eating and atrial fibrillation
      • Physical activity and atrial fibrillation
      • Alcohol intake and atrial fibrillation
    • Living with atrial fibrillation
  • Communication problems following stroke
  • Swallowing problems after stroke
  • Sex after stroke illness
  • Air Travel Information
  • ST/ART Project
    • ST/ART Background
    • Inpatient Acute - Ninewells Hospital
      • Programme Stories
    • Inpatient Rehab - Angus
      • Programme Stories
    • Inpatient Rehab - Dundee
      • Programme Stories
    • Inpatient Rehab - Perth & Kinross
      • Programme Stories
    • Community Groups - Angus
      • Programme Stories
    • Community Groups - Perth & Kinross
      • Programme Stories
    • Community Groups - Mainstream
      • Programme Stories
    • Community Groups - Dundee
      • Programme Stories
  • Stroke Patient Stories
    • The Stroke
    • Stroke patient stories: Thoughts and feelings afte
    • The ward
    • Stroke patient stories: Eating after a stroke
    • Self care
    • Stroke patient stories: Physiotherapy after a stro
    • The future
    • One Stroke Patient's Experience
• Carers Information
  • Carers Information - Heart Disease
    • Preventing heart disease
    • Symptoms of heart disease
    • Tests & investigations for heart disease
    • Treatments for heart disease
    • Cardiac Rehabilitation
      • Phase 1
      • Phase 2
      • Phase 3
      • Phase 4
    • Living with heart disease
  • Stroke: A guide for carers
    • Carers: Emotional effects on the family
    • Coping at home with caring
    • Becoming a carer
    • Coping with physical and emotional needs
    • Roles and relationships
    • Carers: Looking after yourself
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