Internet Resources

The American Heart Association provides a good introduction about many heart disease topics and how to live a heart healthy lifestyle.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, offers information about heart disease, heart disease prevention, and national statistics.

Medline Plus contains links to many different cardiovascular topics. Medline Plus is a resource provided by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine.


Books available for checkout at St. Mary's Health Resource Center

Take a Load Off Your Heart: 109 Things You Can Actually Do to Prevent, Halt, or Reverse Heart Disease by Joseph Piscatella, 2003. Call Number: FD 200 P67 2005

The Mediterranean heart diet: Why it Works, with Recipes to Get You Started by Helen V. Fisher, 2001. Call Number: BB 220 F53 2001

My New Mediterranean Cookbook by Jeannette Seaver, 2004. Call Number: BB 220 S44 2004

The Cardiac Recovery Handbook: The Complete Guide to Life after Heart Attack or Heart Surgery by Paul Kligfield, 2006. Call Number: FD 200 K65 2006


Local resources

Active Hearts support group
UW Health Research Park Clinic
621 Science Drive, Room 1111A,
Madison, WI
Meetings: First Monday of every month, 7:00 to 8:30 PM
For registration information call: 608-265-8391

American Heart Association, South Central Wisconsin
2850 Dairy Drive, Suite 300
Madison, WI 53718 / phone: (608) 221-8866 / fax: (608) 221-9233

Dean/St. Mary's Health Works, Madison WI
phone: (800) 368-5596
Stay fit and healthy with Health Works classes on healthy eating, fitness, stress relief and much more. For a list of classes visit Dean & St. Mary's Health Works.


The purpose of the St. Mary's Hospital Health Resource Center is to provide patients and the public with access to health and medical information. Our goal is to promote individual responsibility for health and not to offer medical advice. Materials in the library do not necessarily imply any approval or recommendation by St. Mary's Hospital Health Resource Center. Please contact your healthcare provider with specific questions.

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