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Learn how to make smart, heart healthy choices at the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center's Heart Smart Series.
The Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Center provides classes on strategies to reduce your risk for cardiovascular disease and cardiac events (heart attack). Classes are available to patients as part of their program participation.
Exercise and Your Heart
Discuss the essential features of a cardiovascular exercise program including benefits, components, preparation, precautions and monitoring progress.
Coronary Artery Disease and Secondary Prevention
Learn about the problem of coronary arteriosclerosis and its manifestations: heart attack and angina. Discuss risk factors that contribute to coronary artery disease and what you can do to change them, lowering your risk of future cardiac events.
Symptom Recognition
Learn to recognize the symptoms of angina and what to do about them. We review proper use of nitroglycerin and how to distinguish between angina and heart attack symptoms.
Cardiac Medications
Discuss commonly prescribed cardiac medications and the role they play in lowering risk of future cardiac events.
Successful Lifestyle Change
This class will focus on strategies to assist you in making and maintaining lifestyle and behavior changes that improve your heart health.
Mind/Body Practices
A session focused on leading you in a variety of practices and methods to help you better manage stress and develop your understanding of mindfulness and meditation. These practices may include deep breathing, visualization, guided progressive relaxation, or an intro to yoga and Tai Chi.
The Relaxation Response
Learn about stress and its healthy opposite - the relaxation response. Identify your stressors and develop an awareness of how you react to them. Discuss methods of coping with stress and learn some basic management skills. Participants are encouraged to follow up with at least 1 Mind/Body Practice session.
Developing Resilience
This session will assist you to develop your inner strength to respond and recover from adversity. Resilience can enhance healing and help us thrive physically, emotionally, socially, mentally and spiritually.
Mass General is the #1 hospital in New England based on U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals for 2022-2023.
Our physicians welcome second opinion appointments to review cases and proposed lines of treatment.
The Heart Transplant Program successfully completed its 750th transplant on Sunday, April 30. Since the hospital’s first heart transplant in 1985, the Heart Transplant Program has grown into the highest annual volume program in New England.
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Facility along Cambridge Street will provide exceptional care, increased capacity and strengthen ties to West End and Beacon Hill neighborhoods.
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