Heart Health Month

February is Heart Health Month, and there's a great video starring and directed by Emmy-nominated actress Elizabeth Banks about a super mom who takes care of everyone except herself. Make sure to get your heart health checked, and Sierra Providence Health Network can help...

A team of researchers at the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute in Orlando found that hormones produced by the heart can cause regular fat calls from mice and humans to taken on characteristics of brown fat cells.

Nine years ago, after shortness of breath and burning sensations in her chest, Patricia Henderson, age 53, learned that her left coronary artery was 85 percent blocked. She had no family history of heart disease. Patricia had surgery a few days later. The next day she became faint and woke up two days later to learn that she’d had a heart attack and then gone into cardiac arrest. “Medically, I was dead for one hour,” she said.

Learn your numbers! February is National Heart Month at Sierra Providence Health Network. Where should your cholesterol be? Your blood pressure? Your glucose and BMI? If you don't know the answers, that's okay, we can help! Check out this guide for where your numbers should be, and tips on getting there...