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Treating heart disease will often require a massive change in lifestyle. Anyone who has been diagnosed with heart disease will want to radically change any unhealthy habits they partake in -- including quitting smoking, eating heart healthy foods, learning to manage stress, and starting on a exercise regiment. Check out The American Heart Association's guide to getting heart healthy. Many of these lifestyle choices can also help with preventing heart disease.

Getting a handle on stress is especially important to someone recovering from heart disease, since chronic, high-level stress has been show to affect heart health. A guide for dealing with stress as a heart disease patient can be found through the American Medical Association's Chronic Stress and the Heart guide. For more information on heart disease symptoms and prevention, read these guides, which are reccomended by other survivors:

• Heart Disease Guide - WebMD.com
• Heart Disease Center - MayoClinic.com
• HeartHub for Patients - HeartHub.com

Most often, heart disease is treated with medication. It is important to see a doctor regularly and to take your medication as prescribed.If the arteries in your heart are blocked, you may require heart bypass surgery.

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