LifeHeart.com is designed to provide you with current information about the management of heart disease, including quality of life issues. The initial focus of LifeHeart.com will be chronic angina. We invite you to bookmark this page and check back with us as LifeHeart.com continues to grow and add valuable insights, perspectives, and suggestions that are designed to benefit you and your patients.

As a medical professional, you know that an important goal of therapy is to extend patients' lives. But, even if years are added to a person's life, is he or she actually "living better"?

The truth is: maybe not. If patients take multiple medications for a condition, they may notice uncomfortable side effects. Other patients may develop co-morbidities that impair their ability to enjoy the activities of daily living. And others still may be too ill for additional treatment, limiting their lifestyle even more.

These situations may compromise your goal of selecting the best treatment regimen for each patient -- which means a patient's desire to maintain optimum health and quality of life may go unmet. See our Quality of Life section for information about issues that your patients may use to improve their lifestyle today.

We here at LifeHeart.com are committed to helping you meet that goal by providing up-to-date, informative articles that may help you find the right approach.

To view our new Get Tough on Angina page for Healthcare Professionals, click here.

Again, check our site frequently; we'll be adding more information soon.

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