Treatments for heart conditions

The main aims of treatment for heart conditions are to:

• prevent the heart disease getting worse
• prevent complications of heart disease
• ease the strain on your heart
• control any symptoms you have
• help you maintain as high a level of activity as possible
• improve your quality of life

In treating a heart condition, you often have to make lifestyle changes and self-manage your condition. For information on this aspect, see reducing the risks to your heart and living with a heart condtion.

As well as lifestyle changes, you can be treated with:

• medicines
• surgery