South Asians and heart disease

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.

Our free booklets and DVDs are available in English and five other languages - Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

How to look after your heart health

• Looking after your heart
• Diabetes and how it affects your heart
• Healthy eating for a healthy heart
• Smoking, shisha and chewing tobacco - how to stop
• Living to prevent heart disease 
  Our healthy lifestyle DVD for South Asian people.
• Get our Asian recipe book - a colourful cookery book full of mouthwatering and healthy Asian and fusion recipes (in English only).

How to manage a heart condition

• 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
• Heart failure

Cardiac Rehabilitation

• Affairs of the heart 
  This DVD for heart patients and their partners dispels common myths about sex and heart disease.

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 covers healthy eating, physical activity and heart health issues (in English only).