Hypercholesterolemia

This tool is designed to help employers assess the extent to which they have applied evidence-based health promotion interventions in their worksites to prevent heart disease, stroke, and related conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. The CDC Health ScoreCard can establish benchmarks and track improvements (evaluation) over time for various health topics and promotion programs.

The tool contains 100 questions that assess how evidence-based health promotion...

This sourcebook serves as an instruction manual for training community health workers and as a reference and a resource for community health workers working with community members in preventing heart disease and stroke. The sourcebook contains a variety of handouts, which are appropriate for community health workers to use as tip sheets and to give to community members as aids for understanding and living with heart disease and stroke disability.

The sourcebook is divided into the...

These brochures for patients and fact sheets for health care providers explain the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for several cardiovascular diseases.

For patients:

• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks (men)
• Taking aspirin to prevent strokes (women)

For health care providers:

• Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm...

This brochure for people with diabetes describes the links between diabetes and cardiovascular disease and emphasizes the importance of maintaining healthy cholesterol levels.

This brochure addresses the following topics:

• Why should I care about heart disease and stroke if I have diabetes?
• Diabetes increases your risk for heart and blood vessel problems
• How does diabetes hurt my blood vessels?
• Fat in your blood
• What are healthy...

This fact sheet explains the risks of having a high blood cholesterol level and provides guidance on lowering high blood cholesterol.

This tool addresses the following topics:

• Why is cholesterol important?
• How does cholesterol cause heart disease?
• What do your cholesterol numbers mean?
• What affects cholesterol levels?
• What is your risk of developing heart disease or having a heart attack?
• Treating high cholesterol
...

This Web site makes aging-related health information easily accessible for adults 60 and older, as well as their family members and friends.

This Web site addresses the following topics:

• Alzheimer’s disease
• Arthritis
• Balance problems
• Breast cancer
• Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s
• Cataract
• Colorectal cancer
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Diabetic retinopathy...

This tool provides patient information about high blood cholesterol.

This tool addresses the following topics:

• What is cholesterol?
• What is high blood cholesterol?
• Other names for high blood cholesterol
• What causes high blood cholesterol?
• What are the signs and symptoms of high blood cholesterol?
• How is high blood cholesterol diagnosed?
• How is high blood cholesterol treated?
• Key points

This 42-page guide for women presents healthy behaviors to prevent and manage the many health conditions that can affect them. The guide addresses the following topics:

• Recommended screenings and immunizations for women at average risk for most diseases and those at high-risk for specific diseases
• Medicare-covered preventive services
• Healthy heart and stroke prevention
• Warning signs of heart attack and stroke
• Healthy bones
• Breast cancer...

This tool presents questions and answers about the new food label with regard to saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol.

Topics addressed include:

• Information about trans fat
• Heart disease and saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
• Foods containing saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
• Facts about the new food label
• Butter versus margarine

This tool is designed to help clinicians implement the National Cholesterol Education Program’s clinical guidelines for cholesterol testing and management. Based on the Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel or ATP III), the Quick Desk Reference outlines cholesterol management in a sequence of easy-to-follow steps. Steps include:

• Step 1: Determine lipoprotein levels: obtain complete...