Heart health information for
South Asian people

For people in some South Asian groups in the UK the risk of dying early from coronary heart disease is twice as high as for the general population.

We can help you get advice on keeping your heart healthy, in a way that works for you.

Come and find us at the Birmingham Eid Mela on 26 September 2010!

Booklets and DVDs

We offer booklets and DVDs especially for South Asian people. They explain how to look after your heart health, how to manage a heart condition, cardiac surgery and cardiac rehabilitation. These booklets and DVDs are available in English and the five main South Asian languages - Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

You can download or order our booklets and DVDs for free.

Heart health booklets for South Asian people in 6 languages

• Looking after your heart
  
• Taking medicines for your heart
  
• Blood pressure - and how to control it
  
• Cholesterol – and what you can do about it
  
• Angina and what you can do about it
  
• Diabetes and how it affects your heart
  
• Heart failure
  
• Healthy eating for a healthy heart

DVDs with soundtracks in 6 languages

• Living to prevent heart disease 
  Our healthy lifestyle DVD for South Asian people.
  
• Get fit, keep fit, prevent heart disease 
  Find out how different physical activities can be good for your heart health and how to make them part of your daily life.
  
• Cardiac surgery 
  This DVD follows two patients at key points during and after their operation and guides you and your relatives through the recovery process.
  
• Cardiac rehabilitation 
  Learn about the different stages of cardiac rehabilitation and how it supports your recovery.
  
• Affairs of the heart 
  This DVD for heart patients and their partners dispels common myths about sex and heart disease.

Healthy eating

Get our Asian recipe book - a colourful cookery book full of mouthwatering and healthy Asian and fusion recipes (in English only).

Giving up smoking

Get help giving up smoking, in your language, call:

• Bengali - 0800 00 22 44
• Gujarati - 0800 00 22 55
• Hindi - 0800 00 22 66
• Punjabi - 0800 00 22 77
• Urdu - 0800 00 22 88

Heart & Soul magazine

Order our lifestyle magazine for South Asian people. The magazine comes out annually and covers healthy eating, physical activity and heart health issues (in English only).

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