San Antonio College Library

Understand what types of risk factors you cannot control and the importance in knowing them so you and your healthcare team can create the best plan for you.

Learn what cholesterol is and how it travels throughout the body. Understand the dangerous effects and complications that high blood cholesterol can have within the artery walls.

Malaria kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds. The disease is both the cause and effect of Africa’s poverty. But in Uganda, a pioneering farmer, Clovis Kabaseke, believes he has an answer to both problems, using the Chinese herb Artemisia. Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies - are one of the best new hopes for defeating Malaria. Clovis hopes that by encouraging African farmers to grow the plant, he can cure both poverty and this deadly disease....

Watch what you will need to do, and what your healthcare team does, before and immediately after your atherectomy.

Learn the lifestyle changes and daily activities that will help reduce your risk of developing deep vein thrombosis.

Learn strategies that will help you manage your PAD symptoms and prevent long-term complications.

Learn what deep vein thrombosis is and what puts you at risk for this dangerous condition.

Understand what types of risk factors you can control and the importance of knowing them so you and your healthcare team can make a plan to change them.

Recognize the serious complications metabolic syndrome can cause and the risk factors that can lead to it. Understand that through lifestyle changes these risk factors can be managed, leading to a healthier you.

Learn how the DASH Diet plan can assist in helping you reduce your blood pressure.