Love Your Heart

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. Every year, one in four deaths are caused by heart disease.

The good news? Heart disease can often be prevented when people make healthy choices and manage their health conditions.

So take the advice of these posters from the NLM Digital Collections and start loving your heart!

Illustration of a chubby, stylized man and woman, both hugging a stylized heart. Additional hearts float up from their heads, as if to symbolize love.

Dutch Heart Foundation

Symbolically shaped red heart that is broken. A large segment is missing; many cracks are evident; and broken pieces are falling away.

Health Dynamics Poster Program, Clement Communications, Inc.

Cartoon-style illustration of a symbolic heart sleeping on a pillow and smiling

National Center for Health, Demographic and Social Education, France

Cartoon character of a heart, complete with face, arms, and legs. The heart is smiling and one hand rests on a large bottle of pills.

From the book Cardiac Catheterization published by Pritchett & Hull Associates

An illustration of an elaborate, faniful clock. The clock features many symbolic heart shapes and hints for heart health, including eating healthy foods, exercising, and not smoking.

National Heart Foundation of Australia

Color illustration of an overweight woman standing on a heart-shaped scale which is cracking under her weight.

National Heart Foundation of Australia

For more information about heart health, check out these resources from NLM’s MedlinePlus and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. To learn more about the Library’s role in matters of the heart, check out this 2018 blog post from NLM Director Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan.