American Heart Association
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The American Heart Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke American Stroke Association Web site.
The American Heart Association publishes a standard for providing basic and advanced life support, including standards for proper performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The AHA is now also a provider of training for first aid, in addition to CPR.
The AHA also operates an affiliated organization, the American Stroke Association., which focuses on care, research and prevention of strokes.
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[edit] Mission Statement
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke and help people cope.
[edit] Criticism
An article on the alternative medicine website NewsTarget claimed that the AHA has fought against the use of vitamins and nutritional supplements in order to promote the use of prescription drugs, and accused the medical community of being "propaganda machines for the AHA, the pharmaceutical industry, and the FDA."[1]
[edit] See also
- Automated external defibrillator (AED)
- Basic life support, a standard published by the AHA
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), a standard published by the AHA
- AHA-1, an AHA-proposed diet
- Paul R. Ellis Award, and award bestowed by AHA chapters
- Red Friday Promotes awareness of heart disease by wearing red every Friday, although there are two other causes that advocate wearing red on Friday.
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