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Patient Health and Education

Aim for a Healthy Weight.

  • Assessing your weight and health risk:
    • How to Calculate Your BMI
    • Waist to Hip Ratio

Clinical Update:

  • 3-D Imaging Techniques Transform Cardic Catheterization by participating physicians - Jamil Aboulhosn, MD; Daniel Levi, MD; and John Moriarty, MD

Upcoming Event:

  • Northern CA Chapter and Stanford Marfan/Aortic Center Patient Education Seminar, May 14, 2016

Adult Congenital Heart Association Webinars: ACHA Webinar schedule and registration information

  • Atrial Arrhythmias in Adult Congenital Heart Disease - scheduled for Feburary 13, 2018, 7-8pm EST

Past Events:

  • ACHA's 7th National Conference being held September 5-7, 2014 in beautiful Chicago!
  • Healthcare Transition Family Forum: Program for Parents, Teens and Young Adults - scheduled for May 18, 2013

For a healthier you, please see the articles below on walking, list of medications that interact with grapefruit, and the Dash Diet:

  • Walking for Health
  • Expanded list of medications that interact with grapefruit
  • The Dash Diet

For information on Advance Health Care Directive and what you should know, please click on the links below:

  • Advance Health Care Directive: What you should know
  • Advance Health Care Directive Form and Instructions

ACHA articles, click below:

  • ACHA Fact Sheet 2012
  • Birth Control for CHD
  • CCTGA
  • Coarctation of the Aorta
  • Heart and It's Electrical System
  • Long Winding Road to Adulthood
  • Obtaining and Storing Medical Records
  • PH Education
  • Quality of Life in CHD
  • TGA Mustard

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