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Senior Connection
Call Number: HS 116.165

Show topic: Heart disease

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Encyclopedia of heart diseases by M. Gabriel Khan
Call Number: R 616.12 KHAN

ISBN: 0124060617
Food solutions : healthy heart ; recipes and advice for a healthier heart by Patsy Westcott
Call Number: 641.563 WESTCOTT

ISBN: 0600602877
From the heart: a woman's guide to living well with heart disease by Kathy Kastan
Call Number: 362.19612 KASTAN

ISBN: 0738210935
The mysterious human heart by Co-production of David Grubin Productions and Thirteen/WNET New York in association with WETA Washington, D.C.
Call Number: DVD 612.17 MYSTERIOUS

Episode 1. Examines the heart as a muscle. This hour tells the story of the normal heart throughout the histories of three people with end-stage heart failure, where a pump may be a temporary remedy, but in the long term, a transplant is often a necessity. Episode 2. Look at the physiological electrical mechanism that keep a heart beating regularly and efficiently and what happens when this most essential rhythm of life goes awry. Episode 3. Atherosclerosis, the silent blockage of the coronary arteries, which can trigger devastating and sometimes fatal heart attacks.