The Black Women's Guide to a Healthy Heart

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Summary: A down-to-earth, plain-terms, personal care resoure
Review: Professor of Medicine Anne L. Taylor and The Association of Black Cardiologists present The African American Woman's Guide To A Healthy Heart, a health guide directed especially toward an ethnic group that is more likely to suffer heart disease and stroke at younger ages, and 69% more likely to die from them. Individual chapters address determining one's personal heart disease and stroke risk factors, how to prevent cardiovascular disease, how to recover and improve one's health if one has already survived heart disease or a stroke, how to work effectively with healthcare professionals, healthy living habits to adopt, and much more. Though written especially for African-American women the basic recommendations for taking care of one's health and heart is directly relevant to readers of all genders and ethnic backgrounds. The African American Woman's Guide To A Healthy Heart is down-to-earth, plain-terms, personal care resoure.