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For family physicians
Nutrition-related diseases
Nutrition assessment
Vitamins & minerals

Nutrition-related diseases
Alcohol
Cancer and nutrition
Cardiovascular disease nutrition
Diabetes
Food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease etc.
GIT disorders
HIV
Osteoporosis
Renal disease
Weight and eating disorders

Cardiovascular disease nutrition

For health professionals
For patients and general public
For health professionals
Pick of the crop

American Heart Assocation
Lay information on healthy eating, losing weight, cookbooks, exercise, cholesterol etc.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Part of the US NIH, their web site is has a search engine, news alerts, organisational details and health related information divided up into CVS, lung and other body systems.

Under CVS disease there is health professional material on :

There are further special section on Cholesterol, which includes: Many though not all documents are in Acrobat format.

Nat.Heart, Lung and Blood Inst. report on hypertension: 1997
The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure is an update of the previous 1992 guideline from the NHLBI of the NIH. It "contains important new information for clinicians.. and was developed using evidence-based medicine and consensus to make recommendations to clinicians." It is in Acrobat format (546k).
British Dietetic Association: position paper on diet in high coronary risk.
Detailed and referenced position paper.
HeartInfo
Commercial venture (carried information about pharmaceutical products) with lots of information for lay and health professionals. At present dietitian Lisa Hark is working on a specific nutrition section, but for the time being there is a certain amount of nutrition information already on site. For example, regular news of the latest research findings from the clinical journals, some of which are collected by topic (e.g. homocysteine and heart disease).
Disorders of lipid metabolism: notes for physicians
Lecture style notes from a commercial medical information company, requires registration.
Current Issues Related to Diet and Cardiovascular Disease
P resentation from Tufts University to be found in Cyberounds Nutrition Conferences (requires registration).
Cholesterol Lowering in CHD: critical review
From Bandolier Evidence Based Medicine journal, a good review of some meta-analysis on this important but difficult issue.

Another article from the same journal that is well worth reading is on NNDs ("Number Needed to Treat") for lipid lowering.

Cholesterol Screening - An Annotated Bibliography
From Primary Care teaching topics at Univ.of Chicago, a reasonable list of references with comments and, where appropriate, direct links to the Medline abstract of the relevant article.
Cholesterol regulation: graphic
Graphic showing regulatory factors in cholesterol metabolism. From Karolinska Institute.
The Antioxidant Vitamins and Cardiovascular Disease: critical review
Very detailed and extensive literature review on this subject published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (Ann Intern Med. 1995;123:860-872), from authors based at McMaster University. As one might expect given this background, this is an excellent critical review of the literature and a wonderful starting point for any consideration of this promising but still controversial topic. As it was published in 1995, it is still reasonably current.
DASH research home page
DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was a research study designed to test the effect of dietary patterns on blood pressure. The web site is designed to communicate the results of the first phase study to the general and health professional public, and allow interested parties to learn about the current second phase. There is a (as yet) short list of publications, lay summary of the main results, and links to other relevant sites.
NHLBI: Child and adolescent health curriculum materials catalogue
"flyer describes the curriculum materials on the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovasular Health (CATCH) available from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center. An order form is also included. These materials were shown to work in the largest school-based program ever conducted to help teach elementary school students and their parents healthy habits to prevent heart disease. They can also be adapted for use in other settings including community recreation, before and after school programs, and summer camps." In plain text or Adobe format (117k).

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For patients and general public
American Heart Association: nutrition section
Cookbooks, AHA eating plan, recipe of the month, weight control and their certification program. Also their American Heart Association: heart risk calculator based on the Framingham study.

British Dietitians Assocation: Position Paper on Dietary Treatment of People at High Coronary Risk
Well referenced position paper from dietitians in the UK.
Healthy Heart Diet
Lay information, but actually more a collection of links than primary source material.
The Healthy Refrigerator
Strangely there is no readily visible explanation who this site belongs to, but it appears to be a non-commercial lay site dedicated to healthy nutrition for heart disease prevention. The site has information on the latest research findings, nutrition advice and reports on healthy nutrition for heart disease prevention campaigns around the US. There is a search engine.
Health heart
Individual perspective on diet and heart health, involving both supplements and diet.
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Nutrition information, research, test your knowledge segment.
HeartInfo - Heart Information Network
Lots of resources on heart disease, such as news, research reports, links etc. Especially suited for the lay public, and has plenty of nutrition content.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Lay information on cholesterol, also has Latino lay publications, which are bilingual English and Spanish booklets on CVS risk factors and recipes for healthy heart eating.

One particular program is entitled Live Healthier, Live Longer, and is part of the NHLBI's Cholesterol Education Program.

Low fat nutrition resources
From Mimi's kitchen, quite an impressive list of links to low fat recipes and nutrition resources.
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation Home Page
Heart risk quiz, and risk factor facts.
National Cholesterol Education Program
Has documents for lay public as well as guidelines for health professionals.

Pritikin Longevity Center
Partly a commercial site advertising their books and hotel etc., but also nutrition content, such as a bibliography on nutriion in cardiovascular disease, diabetes etc, some recipes, help in finding Pritikin-sympathetic physicians etc.
A Quick Guide to Cholesterol
Web site devoted to cholesterol issues mainly fom lay prespective, including cholesterol calculator and dietary advice.

Healthy Heart Diet
Lay guide to dietary issues in cardiovascular health. Hypertext, but without much graphic element.
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Nutrition information, research, test your knowledge segment.
Fats, Lipids - Nutritional Programming
Personal perspective on how to lower fats.

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