| | Heart Health and Disease: The Basics That You Must Know | |
| | Saving your life | p. 3 |
| | Coronary heart disease: The risk factors you know and those you don't | p. 12 |
| | Cholesterol: Friend and foe | p. 42 |
| | A Plan for Prevention | |
| | Food for the heart | p. 91 |
| | Heart disease in men: It is all partly about sex | p. 448 |
| | Your weight and your heart: How extra pounds create excess risk | p. 66 |
| | Stents versus surgery for coronary heart disease: To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail | p. 283 |
| | A chance to cut is a chance to cure: What you need to know before heart surgery | p. 307 |
| | Red wine and your heart: A drink a day may keep the cardiologist away | p. 123 |
| | Fixing the Broken Heart | |
| | Vitamins and supplements: Trick or treatment? | p. 396 |
| | Exercise and your heart: Which type and how much? | p. 138 |
| | Personal Plans | |
| | The mysteries of Venus: Understanding the hearts of women | p. 421 |
| | Emotion and your heart: You can be scared to death | p. 166 |
| | You've got the beat: Keeping your heart in rhythm | p. 337 |
| | How to tell fact from fiction: Sorting through the medical evidence | p. 193 |
| | Which heart tests do you need? | p. 217 |
| | Medicines for the heart: The big six | p. 253 |
| | Living with heart failure | p. 369 |
| | Heart disease in kids: Prevention starts now! | p. 471 |
| | Looking Forward | |
| | Heart health (and repair) in the future: Star Trek, here we come! | p. 499 |
| | Epilogue: Putting heart doctors out of business | p. 529 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 533 |
| | Index | p. 537 |