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Interviewer: There is a condition cushion defect, what is that mean. Interviewee: Well Cushion defects or Endocardial Cushion Defects are another relatively common form of congenital heart disease. They are particularly common in children but Down...
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Male Speaker: What's a VSD? Male Speaker: VSD stands for Ventricular Septal Defect. It is the commonest in general heart disease and it is a hole between the two pumping chambers of the heart. The heart has basically two sides to it. One side that...
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What medicines are used for heart disease? Dr. Amy Epps: Very common treatments for High Blood Pressure are medicines such as Diuretics. Those are medicines that help you eliminate fluid, especially the salt that you take in in your diet. Salt can...
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As with other valves, there really are two main categories of treatments of diseased mitral valves – repair and replacement. However, with mitral valve disease, it’s really important to understand the benefits of valve repair because the majority ...
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Jennifer Matthews: Each year, more than one million people in the United States will undergo angioplasty to open a blocked artery. Last year, Harry Linton had shortness of breath, indigestion and chest pain - all symptoms of a heart attack. Harry ...
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Male Speaker: What's a ASD? Male Speaker: An ASD is a hole between the two collecting chambers of the heart which are called atria. There is a left atrium which collects blood from the lung and there is a right atrium which collects blood from the...
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Host: What would be in the history that would make you have some concern that kid could have this thing we call WPW or some other related heart condition? What would you be looking for in the history? Andrew D. Blaufox: So if patients -- depending...
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WPW - Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Male1: That condition called Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, what does that mean? Male2: Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome also known as WPW is a condition in which there is an extra electrical pathway within the ...
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Chip Meyers: Hi, I am Chip Meyers with the Alexandria Fire Department. We have been talking about CPR today and we have covered how to clear an airway obstruction in a conscious person, in an unconscious person and how to perform CPR. Next, we are...
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What is an Atrial Septal Defects? Dr. Christopher Nielsen: Atrial Septal Defects are small holes between the atria or the upper chambers of the heart. There are some people that are born with these conditions. It's the most common congenital heart...
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[Music Playing] Sherry Demeterco: Atrial Fibrillation is potentially life-threatening, placing a significant burden on patients, healthcare providers, hospitals, and Canada's healthcare system. Medical experts who treat this chronic condition are ...
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Why Brown Fat is Healthy Dr. Travis Stork: We've been talking about the dangers of fat today but our next guest is not all fat, he’s created equal. Dr. Jim Lyons is a plastic surgeon as well as the author of The Brown Fat Revolution. He says, “Bro...
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Living with Long QT Syndrome Part ½ The day I was diagnosed with long QT, I remember it was Good Friday right before Easter and my mom picked up the phone and her eyes began to fill up and I knew, I didn’t ask her I knew it was the doctor. I knew ...
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There are several causes of mitral valve disease, actually quite a few, but there are a handful of common causes. The most common cause of mitral valve disease is a process called "degenerative valve disease" where portions of the valves wear out ...
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Interviewer: Some cardiograph, there is a condition ARVD. What is that? Doctor: ARVD is arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. This is a fairly rare condition in which within the right ventricle. The heart muscle is replaced by abnormal fatty...
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Explaining an Aortic Dissection Dr. Travis: Please welcome John’s widow actress Amy Yasbek. Welcome Amy. Amy: Thank you. Dr. Travis: So I'm assuming that you probably have never heard of thoracic aortic disease like most of you out in there in the...
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Once I had the mini-maze surgery I was in intensive care for a few hours and then was taken to the heart unit - the cardiac unit. And I remember that first day when they said, “We are going to get you up and let you walk around just a little bit b...
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Speaker: If you had someone diagnosed for instance Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, you can do something today to either obliterate or make it less of a problem, something you can do? Andrew D. Blaufox: Yes. Unfortunately if someone has Wolff-Parki...
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Female Speaker: The most common cardiac arrhythmia doctors encounter is atrial fibrillation. This irregular fluttering or rapid heartbeat of the upper chambers is caused by the heart's abnormal electrical signals, and left untreated may lead to pe...
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What Long QT Syndrome Is Dr. Travis Stork: We’re talking about silent health threats and our next topic was suggested by Jan Smith from Produce the Doctors.com. She asked us to spotlight a heart rhythm disorder it’s called the Long QT Syndrome and...
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A-fib can be from a number of causes and we say that we are all experiments of one when we have A-fib and that really means that we may have all unique combinations of symptoms and causes. For some people, it’s because they have family history. It...
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At-Home Cholesterol Test Dr. Travis Stork: With the cost of medical care skyrocketing, more and more Americans are turning to budget friendly do-it-yourself medical kits at home. I promise fast and accurate result, but are they right for you? Well...
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What Mitral Valve Prolapse Is Part 2/2 May presents a case of mitral valve prolapse. She had really significant symptoms of palpitations which is a fluttering sensation of the chest, being short of breath and also having chest discomfort, and thes...
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What Mitral Valve Prolapse Is Part ½ So sometimes obvious studying, it happens a lot of the time in the evening when I'm studying and I’ll just be sitting and reading not doing anything strenuous or anything, and I’ll just be sitting there and all...
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Female Speaker: Would you know, if you were having a heart attack often many people do not recognize the symptoms of a heart attack especially women. Richard Stein: Very often women will have heart attacks that we call silent hearts attacks at hom...
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Jennifer Mathews: Fifty-six-year-old Tom Calvaresi is the driving force behind his family winery. So when his heart started feeling funny, he did not ignore it. Tom Calvaresi: I could feel it like flutter a little bit. Kind of like if you overuse ...
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Speaker: Monitoring blood pressure. Dr. Lee: One of the very important things for reducing your heart risks in the type 2 diabetes is reducing the blood pressure and I think in the same way you know your weight, you should always know what your bl...
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The Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease There are a number of very important risk factors that are known to contribute to coronary artery disease. Certain risk factors are modifiable and the key ones include high blood pressure, high choleste...
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Male Speaker: The heart may be the most important organ in the body. When all its parts are working normally it beats an average one hundred thousand times a day, however, should the heart start skipping beats, an occurrence called arrhythmia, it ...
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For atrial fibrillation, there are many options. It used to be that doctors just maybe give you a medication and sent you home and said, “Just live with it.” These days we have a lot more options. Typically, the first option is medication and ther...
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Female: Congestive Heart Failure affects over five million Americans but it is still the most commonly misunderstood type of heart disease. So, what exactly is Congestive Heart Failure? Male: Congestive Heart Failure is a condition in which the he...
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Minimally Invasive Robotic Heart Surgery Vs Traditional Heart Surgery My name is Dr. Allen Raczkowski. I am a cardiovascular surgeon who primarily specializes in minimally invasive heart surgery, primarily consisting of the use of the da Vinci® ro...
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What are tricuspid valve disease symptoms? You can understand the unique symptoms of tricuspid valve disease by understanding what the tricuspid valve does. Tricuspid valve is the valve, the inlet valve of the right side of the heart that prevents...
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As with most valve disease, the most common symptom of mitral valve disease is shortness of breath. Again, this shortness of breath can be with exertion, with mild exertion, with moderate exertion, or even at rest, depending on the severity of the...
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Simon: Hi! I am Simon from Old Town, Maine and I was wondering besides stroke and heart-attack, are there any further complications I can have because of high cholesterol? Mimi Ghosh: Thank you for your question, Simon. Cholesterol is a soft waxy ...
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The Symptoms of Aortic Valve Disease There are several common symptoms of Aortic Valve Disease. The most common is shortness of breath. So when an aortic valve is not working properly, the heart basically has to work harder. When the valve is leak...
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Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes Michael DeFranco: Specifically with regards to sudden cardiac death in high school athletes for example, it’s been estimated in terms of the studies I’ve read one and a hundred thousand or one in three hundre...
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Male Speaker: Long QT, what is that? Andrew D. Blaufox: The Long QT Syndrome is a inheritable problem for the most part, although there are acquired forms of Long QT Syndrome. What that involves is that it takes a longer time for the heart to rese...
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Raena Morgan: Hi, I'm Raena Morgan with iHealthTube. I'm visiting with Robert Kowalski, the author of The Blood Pressure Cure. You write in here that loneliness will cause your blood pressure to rise. Could you address that? Robert Kowalski: There...
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Kimberly: Welcome to the Pilates on fifth, ultimatepilatesworkouts.com video podcast. I'm Kimberly Katherine: I'm Katherine. Kimberly: Today's exercise is Hamstring Pulses with the Small Ball. So, we'll go ahead and get in all fours position and I...
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Premature ventricular contractions or premature atrial contractions are the beats that come early and that is why they are premature. The heart has its pump action and it has its electrical action and that’s premature beats on the side of the elec...
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Heart Transplants: Who is a candidate? Dr. John Ikonomidis: Patients who have end stage heart disease developed what's called a cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy literally means sickness of the heart muscle. A normal heart, a normal left ventricle wi...
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The latest news is that an expensive medicine called Vytorin that's been heavily marketed on television with very attention grabbing ads may not be as good as preventing heart attacks as a much cheaper medicine called Zocor, that's also available ...
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Interviewer: How come the pediatrician is sitting in nursery and checked the baby below, why did they do to check so careful. Interviewee: I’ve mentioned that oral that comes in the heart in feeds blood of the whole body, now that big blood vessel...
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Host: What are the symptoms of cardiac arrest? Robert O'Connor: Well the symptoms usually what's perceived by the patient and when a person has cardiac arrest, survives afterwards usually have no recall of the events that lead up to it. So the sym...
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This is Insider Medicine in 60 from New Jersey. Research conducted by pharmacy benefit manager Medco, showed that the number of adults between 20 and 44 years of age using cholesterol and blood pressure medication has significantly increase. Those...
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What is an Arrhythmia and its causes? Dr. Amy Epps: Your heart is controlled by a nervous sort of headquarters, Nerve Head Quarters, and each heart beat is triggered by an impulse, and then it sends signals down through the heart muscle down nerve...
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How Mitral Valve Prolapse Can Be Treated I went in for heart surgery on a Friday morning, was released from the hospital Monday afternoon and went trick or treat the next day with my family. I had mitral valve prolapse which is a leaky heart valve...
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How a Heart Transplant Works Dr. Travis Stork: Today, we’re talking about organ donation here to help are Dr. Abbas Ardehali and Dr. John Kobashigawa, both from the U.CL.A. Heart Transplant Program. And we have actual close up footage from a heart...
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Heart Transplant Patient's Story I mean when you think about it think as is some poor men has died. I can now have use of his heart. My life is in jeopardy and these guys are saying way to go good luck. My life has been high pressure. My professio...
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Narrator: Lonnie Smith is keeping a valve. He leads a Youth Ministry at a small but growing church in San Jose, California. It's the fulfillment of a promise he made as he struggled with a heart condition that almost claimed his life. Lonnie Smith...
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We know that cardiovascular fitness is essential for staying healthy throughout life. And before we start talking about specific heart problems in athletes. For those in the audience who might not understand the issue surrounding an athlete chart,...
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Jennifer Matthews: Cardiologist James Januzzi says treating heart failure patients is a tough challenge. Dr. James Januzzi: They may have very subtle symptoms, and you may not know that they are doing poorly. Jennifer Matthews: That makes it hard ...
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Male Speaker: In the United Stated, a VSD can be closed by a catheter procedure? Can that done here too? Male Speaker: There are a sporadic number of experimental trials being done with various devices that can be used to close Ventricular Septal ...
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Lyle Hurd: We are visiting with Robert Kowalski, the author of The New Eight Week Cholesterol Cure.' Bob, you wrote another book prior to this, right? This is the new cholesterol cure. What are some of the changes? Robert Kowalski: Well, that firs...
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Dr. Dean Edell: Sharon Kane works hard to keep her weight down. Sharon Kane: I'm probably 5-7 pounds away from my goal. Dr. Dean Edell: She exercises good habits everyday, not just on her treadmill. Sharon Kane: I've already done my milk. Dr. Dean...
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I am Dr. Annabelle Volgman. I am an Associate Professor here at Rush University Medical Center. I am the Medical Director of the Rush Heart Center for Women which started five years ago, and I specialize in electrophysiology or arrhythmias of the ...
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Lyle Hurd: I understand that heart disease is something that sometimes runs in your family heritage, is that correct? Robert Kowalski: Oh, yes, absolutely so. What we're talking about here is a genetic trait that may or may not be manifest-- that ...
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How to Perform CPR Without Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation Dr. Travis Stork: Because I remember before I ever went in to medicine, I went and took CPR classes in high school for the lifeguard training. And it's a little intimidating wait, okay two br...
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An atrial septal defect, or a hole between the atrial chambers or receiving chambers of the heart, the symptoms really depend on how big the hole is. The symptoms, there may be no symptoms, and it’s actually quite common for a patient to have no s...
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What are the treatments for tricuspid valve disease? Let's talk about the treatment of tricuspid valve disease. Since most patients with tricuspid valve disease has a leaky tricuspid valve, usually secondary to an abnormality of the heart or one o...
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Host: Today we will talk of hybrid surgery, where you get the surgeon working with a cardiologist and together he makes the surgery albeit or congers what is that all about. David Meyer: There several conditions in which the ideal repair might inv...
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Female 1: Toprol-XL is the brand name for the extended release version of metoprolol, a high blood pressure medication approved by the FDA in 1992. Female 2: Extended release metoprolol is a prescription medication which is available under the bra...
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Female 1: Lopressor is the brand name for metoprolol tartrate, a high blood pressure medication approved by the FDA in 1978. Female 2: Metoprolol tartrate is a prescription medication which is available both as a generic drug and under the brand n...
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Sudden Cardiac Death Interviewer: Several conditions can lead to sudden cardiac death in young athletes. Let's talk about the most common one, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Can you talk about that? Interviewee: Right...
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Hi, my name is Dr. Suzanne Sorof and I am a interventional cardiologist and I am also a specialist in women’s cardiology. I have been practicing cardiology for about, since 2006 is when I finished my training but I have been doing interventions fo...
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What Are Value Options For Patients Who Need An Aortic Valve Replacement? Dr. Lishan Aklog: So there are really two broad categories of valves that could be used to replace a diseased aortic valve. They are those valves that are made from animal t...
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Aortic Valve Replacement: Dr. John Ikonomidis: It's an open heart operation. It's going to require that the patient have his or her chest opened, be placed on bypass and that the heart needs to be stop for a period of time to allow opening of the ...
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What are some surgical procedures for forms of heart disease? Ablation Dr. John A. Schnorr: From an arrhythmia standpoint, if you have an arrhythmia, and not just the skipped beats, the premature beats, but if you truly have a atrial fibrillation ...
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Host: What's a Hypoplastic Left Heart? Guest: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome is a condition in which the so called left side structures, those are the structures that pump blood to the body, form inadequately, in other words, they are too small, ...
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Interviewer: Some of the conditions a kid could have which is very difficult to diagnose that could put you at risk for some cardiac arrest. Doctor: The most common preexisting condition is something called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with some pe...
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How Does The Heart’s Electrical System Work? In terms of the electrical system of the heart, it’s really a complicated pathway dependent on normal architecture of the heart cells. The best way of making the analogy about why the electrical system ...
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Tools Used for Catheter Ablation So the tools we use certainly depends on what type of rhythm we’re going after and what type of information we need to gather from inside the heart. More often than not, we at least have catheter depth find really ...
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Female: One in four Americans has high blood pressure and almost half of them do not even know it. Male: In 95% of cases, the cause of high blood pressure is unknown. But there are certain risk factors that increase your chances of developing hype...
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Diet to Lower Cholesterol: Improve your Health by Learning What is Cholesterol. Whe new go to the doctor and he gives us our cholesterol reading. Many do not understand just exactly what he is talking about. Many people know that cholesterol is ei...
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Cory: My name is Cory; I'm from Jackson, Mississippi. What type of symptoms should a person expect when diagnosed with arrhythmia? Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar: Thank you for your question, Cory. Abnormal heart rhythms can cause symptoms that range from...
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Carlos: Hi! My name is Carlos, I'm from Brazil. I was wondering to know what are the symptoms of high cholesterol. Dr. Leslie Cho: Hi Carlos! Unfortunately, there are no symptoms of high cholesterol and often, the first signs of high cholesterol i...
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Male Speaker 1: Is it some way you do with ASD where you can do less invasive surgery or a much easy approach? Male Speaker 2: There are multiple techniques that exist now a days to minimize the invasiveness of cardiac surgery both for children an...
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Fat loss nutrition tip 3 Buildmuscleandsicpackabs.com This is Jimmy Smith in buildmuscleandsixpacksabs.com and I want to talk to you guys with my favorite salad. Very good for low fat, low carbohydrates diets, very high in protein, so our Mexican ...
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What causes tricuspid valve disease? So interestingly, the tricuspid valve most commonly malfunctions, not on its own, but as a result secondarily to another valve in the heart that’s abnormal or another problem with the heart. So patients who hav...
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The Symptoms of Supraventricular Tachycardia The symptoms of supraventricular tachycardia, or fast heart rhythm, actually can be very, very variable. We have pediatric population that will go through their parents and say, “Mommy, my heart is raci...
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Rebecca Fox: It’s being held that’s a study that will change the way doctors practice medicine. Researchers reported that a cholesterol fighting Statin Drug brand name Crestor reduces the risks of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular disease by...
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Male Speaker: A new Canadian-lead study provides good news for the 250,000 Canadians who suffer from atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that causes 15% of strokes. In the past, physicians have had to treat atrial fibrillation patients with med...
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Martin Venderwood: Atrial Fibrillation or AF is a common heart disorder affecting close to 250,000 Canadians. Despite this, results of a recent Léger Marketing survey reveal that 60% of Canadians do not recognize that atrial fibrillation is a hear...
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Rebecca Fox: On just an ordinary day in a typical American town, Charles Beckham is getting a routine checkup of his heart. Female Speaker2: I will tell by looking at the aortic valves, see how bright it is that it has calcium on it. Rebecca Fox: ...
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Sudden Cardiac Death and Family History Interviewer: We’ve touched on a couple of the important things in our previous evaluation that you might look for in terms of risk of heart disease in athletes. You had mentioned before personal history of s...
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The Symptoms of Coronary Artery Disease Coronary artery disease is a process that affects the arteries, which supply the heart with blood and essentially what you have is hardening of the arteries, plaque formation, which is essentially cholestero...
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Chest Congestion Remedies for Kids Loren: I have two children, two and a half and then one. And so, since he’s in school, he is always you know bringing home a little cold and my daughter keeps getting chest colds. But none of the medicine you can...
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Angina and coronary disease can present much differently than it does in men. You can have typical signs which are the crushing chest pain radiating into the jaw causing some shortness of breath down your left arm, not really numbness in your arm ...
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What is Congestive Heart Failure and its causes? Dr. Amy Epps: There is another type of heart disease called Congestive Heart Failure which can be a weakening of heart muscle itself. So again, the heart is made up of -- is a muscular organ with fo...
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Host: How do you refer to WPW as a short circuit type of mechanism of the heart and if you didn't have a cardiogram at a visit, there is no guarantee you would even see it, is that true? Andrew D. Blaufox: Well, if patient with WPW, the diagnosis ...
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Preeclampsia vs. Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension Well preeclampsia for a long time has gone by different names and toxemia is the lay person’s term for preeclampsia. Some people may hear the term ‘PIH’ thrown about and PIH is really in archaic term...
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Male speaker: Here, the idea is to place a physical injury to the nerve, so that the muscle is not able to contract. You're damaging the nerve so that it stops sending signals through the muscle. Male Speaker: Let's look at Evelyn's before picture...
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There are several causes of aortic valve disease. The most common cause is degeneration or wear and tear of the valve, and that happens really over a long period of time and most commonly presents in older patients, particularly women, starting in...
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Dr. John Ikonomidis: Coronary artery disease is a disease that occurs when fat and cholesterol build up in the wall of the arteries that supply the heart with blood and cause them to become narrow. The heart like all other organs in the body requi...
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Martin Vanderwoude: For a person at rest, not engaged in any physical activity, a heart rate of 60-80 beats per minute is considered normal. For those with Coronary Artery diseases, this resting heart rate is extremely important. An elevated rate ...
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The Importance of Omega-3 And Omega-6 Fatty Acids Hi. I am Dr. Joseph Hibbeln. I am a Captain in the United States Public Health Service and I am the acting chief on the Section of Nutritional Neurosciences at the National Institute of Alcohol Abu...
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Omega-3 fatty acids are very, very important for a woman’s body. It’s important for our skin; it’s important for our hair; it’s important for our female hormones; it’s important for our stress hormones, so our adrenal glands, which produce cortiso...
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Learn about Heart Disease in Women Part 1/3 Female: I've been running since I was 14 years old. I never recalled any grunting, any pain in my chest or problems while running anything to make me think there was anything going on with my heart. I wa...
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Living with Long QT Syndrome Part 2/2 Michaela’s case is interesting while the long QT syndrome is relatively uncommon in the general population it is one of the most common causes of sudden death in young people and in young athletes. Long QT syn...
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Raena Morgan: Hi I am Raena Morgan with iHealthTube visiting today with Robert Kowalski. He is the author of The Blood Pressure Cure. I would like to ask you to tell the viewers how blood pressure and physical activity go hand-in-hand and how we s...
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Raena Morgan: Hi, I'm Raena Morgan with iHealthTube and we've been talking with Dr. Rapaport about ATP. And, what we'd like to know, Dr. Rapaport as we've talked about ATP's effect on skeletal muscle, what is its effect on cardiac muscle, on the h...
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What is the difference between heart valve repair and replacement? Dr. Allen Graeve: Valve repairs and replacements, they are totally different. Value repairs generally leave the valve in place or some portion of the valve in place, an attempt to ...
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Quick Tips to Lower High Blood Pressure Dr. Travis Stork: So what is your name, sir? Kyle: Kyle. Dr. Travis Stork: Kyle. How old are you Kyle? Kyle: 22. Dr. Travis Stork: All right. So, can I check your list? Kyle: Go ahead. Dr. Travis Stork: So y...
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Raena Morgan: Our blood pressure, how often should we have it taken and how quickly can it become too high? Dr. Owen Thompson: Well, very good question and I don't know if anyone has an exact formula for that, because it does vary from person to p...
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What Is Interventional Cardiology I am Dr. Andrew Atiemo. I am an interventional cardiologist at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center. I treat patients in the north Phoenix area including Glendale, Peoria, and the Arrowhead area. We see patients with...
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Host: What role can a defibrillator play in the immediate treatment of cardiac arrest? Robert O'Connor: Defibrillators are often thought of as the main treatment, the main state of treatment for cardiac arrest. If someones in a rhythm called ventr...
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Susan: I am Susan from Hayward, California. Is there any treatment for Arrhythmia, and if so, what kind? Ronald Berger: Well Susan, Arrhythmia is a very broad subject. There are many different types of Arrhythmia and depending on which Arrhythmia ...
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Susan Sharma: For Insidermedicine in 60, I'm Doctor Susan Sharma. From the UK, low levels of HDL or good cholesterol may be associated with a higher risk for memory loss and a study of over 3,600 people researchers found that those with low HDL ch...
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Recovering from a Heart Transplant - Wanda's Story Travis: Ladies and gentlemen joining us via Polycom is the one and only Wanda. Wanda, welcome you to show. Wanda: Thank you! Travis: How are you feeling? Wanda: I feel great. Travis: You look grea...
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Heart Transplant with Dr. Gonzo Male: The following program contains images of an actual surgical procedure. These images are graphic and may be disturbing. Parents are advised that these images may not be suitable for young children. Dr. Travis S...
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Right Heart Catheterization vs. Left Heart Catheterization With cardiac catheterization cardiologists can obtain detailed information about the heart. Diagnostic right heart catheterization allows one to measure the pressure in the right side of t...
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The Prognosis for Heart Failure Patients Prognosis for heart failure has considerably improved over the years. Prior to the advent of some of our current therapies, heart failure had the most dismal prognosis and the patient who had the most sympt...
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The valves of the heart can be affected by a process called calcification, and what that is, is really where the valve develops abnormal deposits of calcium on its cusps or leaflets, and that can show up as simply a finding on some kind of an imag...
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Dr. Susan Sharma: This is Insidermedicne in 60. From Copenhagen - Taking vitamins on a daily basis may not help you live longer, and may even raise the risk of death. In a meta-analysis of 67 randomized clinical trials and data from over 200,000 s...
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Host: Who pays for this treatment? Peggy Halliday: Public schools are required to provide a free and appropriate public education to every child no matter what their disability is. So, the public schools are required to provide your child beginnin...
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Melissa Medley: Dan Matthys is still kicking after living 38 years with a heart defect. Dan Matthys: I never played sports growing up, I was never allowed to. Melissa Medley: A weak pulmonary artery valve reduced blood flow from Dan’s heart to his...
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How to Live with an Enlarged Heart Part 2/2 Ken’s case is incredibly interesting because it raises the issue of what is a normal heart and what is an abnormal heart. We hear about Ken and his enlarged heart but we also know that he has a history a...
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How to Live with an Enlarged Heart Part ½ I've been playing competitive sports since I was the age of 8 and all through those years all my couch and all my friends have said that I play with more heart than anybody else out there in the field. Now...
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Mitral valve prolapse is a fairly common, basically benign condition involving the mitral valve. It’s picked up by your doctor as a slightly abnormal heart sound with a stethoscope, something called a "click," and in and of itself, it does not imp...
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Female: Over six million Americans suffer from Angina. But what exactly is an Angina. Male: Angina is a chest pain or discomfort that occurs when the heart muscle is not getting enough oxygen. Angina is not the same thing as a heart attack althoug...
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Trevor Gatty: I was feeling tired. Walking from here next door to the grocery store was really quite a drag. Host: It beats 35 million times a year, circulating blood through 100,000 miles of vessels. The human heart is an amazing muscle with intr...
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Heart Valve Disease Causes And Symptoms Allen Graeve: Heart valve disease is really caused by anything that causes the valve either to leak or to obstruct. These leaflets that form the valves are very, very thin in the mitral position, they are so...
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Dr. Susan Sharma: This is insidermedicine in 60. From Perth, genetic markers can be used to screen for potential adverse reactions to Ziagen, a drug used to treat HIV. Researchers compared the rate of adverse events in a group of patients who test...
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Speaker: Right bundle branch block you mentioned the term, please define it correctly. Andrew D. Blaufox: Right bundle branch block is a particular pattern on the EKG which indicates that it takes longer for the electrical impulse to get to the ri...
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Jennifer Mathews: Tony Teutsch was only 12, when he found out he had a heart murmur. Tony Teutsch : I had developed a shortness of breath along with other symptoms. I was skipping a beat, or palpitations, or just chest pain. Jennifer Mathews: At 4...
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Jennifer Matthews: A walk in the park is something Trevor Gatty doesn't take for granted these days. Before having a leaky heart valve repaired, this simple stroll would have left him exhausted. Trevor Gatty: I used to walk to the store, and by th...
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EmpowHer Asks: What are the symptoms of atrial fibrillation? Dr. Brian deGuzman Associate Chief of Cardio Vascular Surgery The Atrial Fibrillation is a little bit different than coronary disease for example where the differences and symptoms are w...
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Why is it common for a woman with atrial fibrillation to not experience symptoms? Dr. Himanshu H. Shukla: Any patient with atrial fibrillation can have what we call symptomatic atrial fibrillation or asymptomatic atrial fibrillation where they do ...
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Mitral valve disease simply is abnormal functioning of the mitral valve. The mitral valve is the valve that prevents the blood from going backwards to the lungs when the main chamber, pumping chamber of the heart, squeezes. So the valve needs to o...
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Heart Medications Dr. Christopher Nielsen: Well, Aspirin is by far the most common in the heart medication. I tell my patients that, an Aspirin a day keeps the doctor away, because it's probably the best medicine we have for preventing heart attac...
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What are the major risk factors for heart disease? High blood pressure Dr. Amy Epps: Most common risk factor, number one would be high blood pressure. High blood pressure affects the arteries, it can damage the arteries long term, high blood press...
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Depression. Question: What is the role of norepinephrine and serotonin in depression and its treatment? Dr. David Hellerstein: The basic thought would be with depression is that the brain has deficient levels of transmitters most prominently norep...
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What Is Aortic Valve Disease/AVD? Dr. Lishan Aklog: The aortic valve is the outlet valve of the main pumping chamber of the heart. So, when then main pumping chamber of the heart squeezes and tries to pump the blood to the body, the aortic valve o...
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Jennifer Matthews: Ellazer Holland walks with a purpose. This treadmill could save his life. Ellazer Holland: They found out I was having problem with my heart, so they said I had to come over and see Dr. Bailey. Jennifer Matthews: Ellazer is taki...
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Understanding Heart Murmurs in Children One medical finding that often gets talked about that we should mention is a normal phenomenon. But the mere mention of it bothers a lot of young mothers. That is the innocent heart murmur. When the doctor s...
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My atrial fibrillation came just a few hours after getting off of a plane. I was sitting in my home office pulling e-mail and all of a sudden my heart skipped some beats and then started racing and I got dizzy and thought I was going to pass out. ...
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Raising awareness for Atrial fibrillation has become my passion. Because one of the ways that we can wiped out a fibrillated strokes is to let people know about a A fib and then that’s a problem. So, there have been a number of things. One of the ...
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Martin Wendover: Chances are that you've probably never heard of Atrial fibrillation or AF but it affects up to a quarter of a million Canadians. It is a serious heart condition characterized by irregular or rapid heartbeat, that can be both frigh...
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Heart Arrhythmias After a Catheter Ablation The sensation in the heart after a procedure is often variable. Typically, one cannot easily tell if it worked right away unless you have an abnormal rhythm incessantly. If somebody, for example, has a r...
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Dr. Mona Khanna: We know exactly what the risk factors are for developing hypertension and there are some they can't be controlled and some that is completely out of your control. The ones that you can do anything about are your sex. We know that ...
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How to Identify Heart Failure Symptoms Heart failure is the combination of various signs and symptoms. Some patients maybe short of breath with activity, some maybe short of breath at rest, some patients may find more fatigue than they used to be....
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How a Ventricular Assist Device Works Dr. Travis Stork: We have an animation of what a ventricular assist device does. Can we you walk us through what we’re seeing here in this animation? Male: This is a device that is Thoratec HeartMate II. It is...
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Norvasc is the brand name of amlodipine an antihypertension or high blood pressure medication approved by the FDA in 1992. Amlodipine is a prescription medication which is available both as a generic drug and under the brand name Norvasc. This med...
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Female 1: Norvasc is the brand name for amlodipine, an anti hypertension or high blood pressure medication approved by the FDA in 1992. Female 2: Amlodipine is a prescription medication which is available both as a generic drug and under the brand...
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Interviewer: You took a Cardio-Vascular Surgery, is that correct? Doctor: Yes, I do. Interviewer: But you specialized in a very unit care, you try to use no or very low blood many times, is that true? Doctor: Yes, these are in our global sort of p...
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Lucy Piper: Every mother hopes they won't have to resuscitate their child but there are times when the Knowledge becomes crucial. I am joined by Clive James from St. John Ambulance, our mum Fiona and baby Sam. Clive, first of all what would I do i...
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Steve Furnell: What we need to do is give the baby some air, because they are not breathing. So we need to breathe for them and we do this by first of all getting them two breaths. We say to people, it's a bit like an huff in front of the mirror, ...
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Omega-3 Fatty Acids for Protection Against Disease Now this question you ask of how much should a women take? Well, it depends on how well you want to be protected from disease. At a minimum a good starting point is to take enough to achieve blood...
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Depression and Omega-3 Fatty Acid For nearly 20 years I have been working in the field of asking if deficiencies, dietary and tissue deficiencies of long chain omega-3 fatty acids, increase risk of depression, suicide, violence and other abhorrent...
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Automated External Defibrillators and Sudden Cardiac Arrest Interviewee: It’s estimated that people who go in a sudden cardiac arrest that they can be saved by an AED. Can you tell us what’s an AED and do you think one should be present at all—adv...
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Male Speaker: Beta Blockers are a group of medications that slow the heart rate and reduce the force of each heartbeat. They are called beta blockers because the medicine works by blocking some of the nerve signals that control the heart rhythm. D...
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For the vast majority of patients with heart valve disease, it really is extremely safe. There have been major improvements in heart valve surgery that’s made it safe for most patients. The key thing to remember there is that in any patient with h...
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Josh: I am Josh from Old Town, Maine, and I want to know, does high cholesterol have an effect on contracting diabetes? Mimi Ghosh: This is a great question, Josh, because it brings up a lot of very important points. The risk factors for high chol...
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An atrial septal defect is a hole or an abnormal connection between the two atrium of the heart, the right and left atria which are the receiving chambers of the heart. An atrial septal defect is a congenital heart defect in that you’re born with ...
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What are the signs and symptoms of Arrhythmia? Dr. Amy Epps: The other symptoms of other types of heart disease from an Arrhythmia stand point, very common are palpitations, palpitations can be described as skipped beats, funny feelings in the che...
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What Is Arrhythmia? Arrhythmias as a whole can be anything from slow heart rhythm disorders referred to as bradyarrhythmias or bradycardia to fast rhythm disorders or tachycardias, okay? Those are kind of two very broad categories. When you look a...
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Martha: My name is Martha and I am from Richmond, California. Can having Arrhythmia cause me to have a fatal heart attack? Amparo Villablanca: Martha, it is possible for an Arrhythmia to cause a heart attack. However, it is much more likely that a...
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How common is pulmonary valve disease? Pulmonary valve disease is really quite rare in adults. An occasional patient can get an infection of the pulmonary valve, but it’s pretty unusual to have a pulmonary valve disease in an adult. It’s much more...
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Bryan: Hi! I am Bryan from Bradenton, Florida and my question is, are there any complications of Dressler's Syndrome that I should be aware of? Leslie Cho: Hi Bryan! Dressler's Syndrome is a complication of a heart attack or after a bypass surgery...
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Male Speaker: You looked again at the suspicious of WPW syndrome, what would we be looking for? Andrew D. Blaufox: On the EKG you would see a short PR interval, so the electrical timing between the electrical activation of the upper chamber or the...
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What Symptoms Did You Have Before Your Heart Attack? Beverly: Back in 2007, I didn’t really have any symptoms that told me I was going to have a heart attack. My husband and I had been out to dinner, had a wonderful evening, went home and I think ...
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Very good question, there was a study that was done by nurses from the NIH. They asked a thousand women who just had a heart attack, what their symptoms were a month before their heart attack, and the most common response was unusual fatigue. Seve...
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Are African American men are more like to die from heart attack than other people? There has been recent research to show that people who lack high school eduction, and particularly African American men, have a very small amount of knowledge base ...
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I am Diana Mirkin and I am going to talk with you about using diet to control cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes. Dr. Mirkin and I are not alone in telling you that you can do these things. There have been a tremendous number of researc...
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What Is A Radiofrequency Ablation? For ablation the best study is perhaps radiofrequency ablation, this is about a 45-minute procedure where through the endoscope a balloon, which is sized to the individual's esophagus is inserted. Once the balloo...
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Lyle Hurd: Dr. Cass, one of the ingredients that we hear more about today than virtually anything else, is something that really tends to be a real boom to mankind, is fish oil. Tell us a little bit about fish oil and, kind of, how it works on var...
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The Benefits of Cardiac Catheterization Cardiac catheterization is a tool that cardiologists use to gain information about the heart. Typically this involves going in through the artery in the groin, the femoral artery, and advancing a small tube ...
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How to Avoid a Family History of Heart Diseases Corey: My name is Corey I'm from Atlanta, Idaho. What can I do to avoid my parents’ history of heart disease or is my fate already sealed? Dr. Charles Campbell: Corey your fate is not sealed. There a...
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What is a Heart Catheterization? Dr. Christopher Nielsen: A heart catheterization is a same day procedure, meaning; the patient shows up that same day, comes into the heart catheterization lab, and we run the small tube up. Take the pictures of th...
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Vincent Bellonzi: Hello again. I want to talk a little bit about cholesterol. In a lot of ways, cholesterol got a bad reputation. It's been really disrespected. The reason is that we made so many assumptions because of a simple association. In oth...
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Female If you suffer from recurrent problems with your cholesterol levels your doctor may recommend a medication. How will your physician decide what is right for you? Male: When prescribing a medication to regulate your cholesterol levels, your d...
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Inside a Heart Transplant Operation Dr. Travis Stork: Well to give you idea of what happens once a heart becomes available, let’s a take a look, an exclusive look at an actual heart transplant. And it took place at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San D...
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Heart Transplant Recipient and Donor's Dr. Travis Stork: Do you want to meet? Nicole: Yes. Dr. Travis Stork: Harry? Nicole: Yeah I’d loved to. Dr. Travis Stork: Harry, come on out. Harry: Thank you so much. Wow. Dr. Travis Stork: How are you feeli...
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Jennifer Matthews: Candace Moose moves fast these days. Five years ago, a new heart gave her a new life. Since then, there's been no slowing her down. Candace Moose: I swim on a regular basis at my local YMCA. I play tennis. I play golf... Not ver...
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How to Recognize the Symptoms of Hypertension Doug: Hi, my name is Doug. This is Homer. We work for Consul Quebec, Canada. My question is what are the symptoms and warnings concerning high blood pressure? William: Well that’s an interesting questi...
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How large is the Minimally Invasive Robotic Heart Surgery Scar As an example, mitral valve surgery, which is probably the most common robotic procedure done, and it’s also more common in women, the incisions are made along the bathing suit line to...
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The way to know that you have it is if you feel like your heart is kind of flopping around in your chest like a flopping fish or maybe have butterflies in your chest, or maybe it feels like a bag of wiggly worms. It could simply be as simple as ju...
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Jennifer Mathews: This is the sound of a healthy heart. This is what Peter Nyquist felt inside his chest for the past decade. Peter Nyquist: Instead of feeling a constant boom, boom, boom in your chest, it would be boom boom, boom. Everything was ...
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Jennifer Matthews: Four-month-old Jacob is getting a high-tech check-up of his heart. Dr. Curt DeGroff: We're looking for the heart to speak to us. Jennifer Matthews: Doctor Curt Degroff uses an Artificial Neural Network or ANN to diagnose potenti...
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What Is Catheter-Based Ablation? The catheter-based ablation has been around for approximately 20 years and very popularly around for 20 years. It was originally used for very simple SVT ablations. The cure rates got very good in a very short peri...
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Being Placed on a Heart-Lung Machine I tried not to think too much about it because if you think about anything, oh Lord, I am going to be technically dead for three hours, right? I mean my heart and my lungs are not functioning, it is scary. And ...
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So the treatment of aortic valve disease like any valve disease includes the option of repairing the valve or replacing the valve. However, with the aortic valve, only a small minority of patients have valves that can be repaired. So patients who ...
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How a Defibrillator Works Dr. Travis Stork: We’re back with our special guest co-host, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and I said it earlier, I’ll say it again, what we’re about to show you will save the lives of some of you watching this show right now. ...
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Prosthetic Heart Valves Complications * Primary valve failure * Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) * Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) * Thromboembolism * Mechanical hemolytic anemia * Anticoagulant-related hemorrhage Make Up * Composition: -Synt...
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Female Speaker: I couldn't make it to bed. I couldn't stand, see, I would have to sit down a couple of times before I finish the dishes. Dr. Dean Edell: There is no underestimating the power of a healthy heart. Just ask any of the one in seven peo...
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The On-X Heart Valve: Longevity With Less Reliance on Coumadin: Dr. John Puskas: The On-X valve reduces a need for Coumadin, we believe in three ways. First it's made of pure carbon, that is 100% pure carbon. It has no silicon in it. So it is poli...
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Host: If you have to put this automated defibrillators in a child with some conditions? Andrew D. Blaufox: Yes. Defibrillators are being used more and more often even in the pediatric population, ICD or Internal Cardioverter Defibrillators are lif...
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Lyle Hurd: We’re here with Dr. Parris Kidd. We’re discussing a study he has just completed on DHA and EFA—essential fatty acids. I’d like to ask Dr. Kidd a question about something that we have discussed between us. Relative to an example of takin...
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Dr. Susan Sharma: This is insider medicine in 60, from New Hampshire, these are drug eluting stent, lower serious risk of additional procedures to un block coronary Arteries, the researchers from Dermot University evaluating over 65000 patients wh...
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Female: Bruce, trans fatty acids. Bad right? Male: They’re very bad, when the vegetable oil is hydrogenated trans fatty acids are produced. These are artificial fatty acids, fatty acids that body does not recognize as food but it tries to utilize ...
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What is Angioplasty? Dr. Christopher Nielsen: If people are not doing the right things throughout their life and they build up blockages in the arteries, that are severe enough to limit the amount of blood flow so that they start having pain or pr...
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I am Steve Turano. Welcome to this episode of Body Performance. Let me talk a little bit about Trans Fats. You are hearing a lot about this in the news because companies are trying to minimize or eliminate Trans Fats from their foods. Now Trans Fa...
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Well, the symptoms are, although in some areas symptoms do differ, in heart failure they really don’t differ a great deal, as far as I am aware, and heart failure is caused by an inability of the heart to pump enough blood, particularly under stre...
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My atrial fibrillation was really caused by a variety of different things, and I never could figure out exactly what it was. Sometimes it would be things like bending over, to wash the dog, or to pull an email on my computer. Other times it might ...
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Female 1: Lipitor is the brand name for atorvastatin calcium, a cholesterol lowering medication approved by the FDA in 1999. Female 2: Atorvastatin calcium is a prescription medication which is available only under the brand name Lipitor. This med...
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Zoë Simpson: High blood pressure or hypertension can affect anyone and what you don't know about it really can hurt you. Take our Everwell Challenge and see how you measure up. Okay, let's get started. True or false, the main cause of high blood p...
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High Blood Pressure Preventing High Blood Pressure Is your blood pressure normal? That is great! But before you enjoys sala victoria drink let us look ways to prevent hypertension from developing. 25% of Americans have high blood pressure also kno...
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Female: Every 33 seconds, someone dies of cardiovascular disease. High blood pressure is often a pre-cursor to heart disease. So preventing and controlling it is essential. Female: Thirty percent of Americans have high blood pressure or hypertensi...
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Male1: Today, we have a society that were worried about good health and for some strange reason, we are starting to see some kids who get hypertension and it is not that we are worried about cholesterol, sometimes they are sent to the ER especiall...
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Understanding High Blood Pressure One in our Americans has high blood pressure and almost half of them do not even know it. Let us take closer at this common condition. To truly understand high blood pressure or hypertension as it is known in medi...
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Consequences of High Blood Pressure Among people who have high blood pressure, 30% do not even know about it. And that is a bad news. Because untreated hypertension causes thousands of death each year. As many as 65 million Americans over the age ...
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Learn about Heart Disease in Women Part 3/3 Female: Heart disease in some ways is about choice. Doctors say eating a healthy diet of fresh vegetables, fruits and fish can make all the difference in the world. Well known Chef Lina Fat is working wi...
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What is the latest technology in the field? Fast CT Dr. Amy Epps: It's more of diagnostic test that is coming out and more in the forefront that is a non-invasive test to look for coronary disease, is this new Fast CT. It's a CAT scan of the heart...
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The New Life-Saving CPR Technique Dr. Travis Stork: There’s a new kind of CPR, it’s actually called Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, not CPR -- but CCR and it does have a lot of controversies surrounding it. Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Well, it’s this idea tha...
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Host: What is CPR? Dr. P. Mona Khanna: CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and we've seen some important changes in the guidelines for CPR recently. The whole point is, when somebody's heart stops beating, then what you want to do, is you...
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Malenie Raposo: Hi everybody I'm Melanie Raposo, and welcome to the pregnancy show, its always a good idea to take a CPR class, but especially if you have little ones running around in home, infant and toddlers CPR techniques are different than ad...
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The Causes of Athletic Arrhythmia Keith: I'm Keith from Westhampton, New Jersey. I love sports. I've heard horrible stories of world class athletes who experienced an arrhythmia while playing their sport and died. What is the cause of such arrhyth...
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Mathew Sorrentino: Current recommendations Matt, recommend that you should get your cholesterol checked beginning at age 20, it should be a full cholesterol profile it will include both the total cholesterol the good and bad cholesterol. If your c...
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Adrian's Rare Heart Surgery Steven: I have think about if the surgery is not successful, the images that come to my mind is I’ll be watching my son for the first time after the surgery and not seeing his heart. Dr. Travis Stork: 2-year-old Adrian ...
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Frank Murray: Well, as I mentioned, I would like to remove cholesterol. When I began researching cholesterol in the sixties, 250 was the average number. Raena Morgan: It was? Frank Murray: Now, its 200 or below. Raena Morgan: Right. Frank Murray: ...
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Tyler: I am Tyler from Texas. What's the difference between LDL and HDL cholesterol? Dr. Javed Butler: Tyler, that's an important question. There are two kinds of cholesterol in the blood that circulates. Actually, there are many different kinds b...
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The recovery period after a heart valve surgery depends on a couple of variables. It depends on the complexity of the surgery. It depends on how well the woman is doing before the surgery, if she’s very sick going into the operation or really quit...
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How Does Dopamine Fit in with Pharmacology Strategies In the paradigm of diagnosis and treatment of a woman with a sexual health problem, we have a recognized strategy. It involves identification of the sexual health problem, and we would do a his...
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How to Cope with Atrial Fibrillation I was given a choice, you can either sit on the couch for the rest of your life or you can continue with your dream of wanting to cycle. And I really wanted to cycle so whenever I was asked to do I was going to...
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I am Mellanie True Hills. I am the CEO of the American Foundation for Women’s Health and of a non-profit website stopafib.org for atrial fibrillation patients. I am a heart disease survivor. About four years ago I was a hi-tech road warrior travel...
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Diana Mirkin: Hi, I am Diana Mirkin and we are talking about controlling blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes with lifestyle changes. We have talked a lot about the food that you will eat when you are changing your life style, but I want doubl...
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What is Interventional Cardiology? Dr. Christopher Nielsen: Well, Interventional Cardiology is a branch of cardiology where we are able to do things, procedures to specifically change something that's going on in the heart. Such as, if there are b...
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When women ask me if they are having a heart attack based on a symptom of what we call a palpitation or an irregular perceived heartbeat, it would be very difficult to answer that question yes or no without more data. Younger women and older women...
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One of the best things that I have done for a lot of women who have palpitations is that I find that a lot of them just need magnesium. A lot of women are deficient in magnesium, just like they are deficient in vitamin D. I am finding that women w...
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The most common depends on what your blood pressure is. And one of the things that many people don’t know, women anyway and men and the general public, is that hypertension isn’t the same as your grandmother’s hypertension. We’ve learned over the ...
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Dr. Arthur Agatston: I am Doctor Agatston prevention from the heart doctor. Hi I am Doctor Agatston here to dispel some heartiness for you. I'd like to talk about Angioplasty or Stent. This is where a Cardiologist puts a tube into the coronary art...
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If I can give you some information about what to address with your physician, here are three things that you need to ask, and it falls under the category of “know your numbers.” Know what your blood pressure is. Blood pressure is listed as high, a...
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Lyle Hurd: Well, I am happy to welcome back Robert Kowalski author of, “The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure.” I bet I have 20 friends that take statin drugs, yet I hear all of these— Robert Kowalski: Just 20? Lyle Hurd: Well, I don’t talk to everybody...
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Lori's Heart Transplant Story Lori: 20 years ago I had a heart attack, two weeks after my first child was born. And the one night, I just had another like relapsed. They told I had congestive heart failure. As soon as they saw me, they said I need...
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Jennifer Matthews: Curt Jones hadn't even reached his 50 birthday, but he was already growing tired of life. Curt Jones: Going up stairs was like really hard. You know, I could walk, but everything was an effort. Jennifer Matthews: He had Cardiomy...
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Two for One Heart Repair with Hybrid Revascularization Melissa Medalie: Larry Wineski teaches at a medical school but two months ago, his heart gave him a lesson of his own, a textbook case of coronary artery disease. Larry Wineski: They said it w...
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Margie Weiss: My name is Margie Weiss. I’ve been in fitness all my life, as a national champion in gymnastics as a child, through to an adult, where I have been teaching children, athletes, and regular kids, sports conditioning, personal training,...
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What Is A Heart Attack & And It's Risk Factors? Dr. Amy Epps: A heart attack is a process in the coronary artery that is usually caused by long term damage to the coronary artery based on your risk factors. Risk Factors Dr. Amy Epps: High blood pr...
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Host: How is cardiac arrest treated once a patient arrives at the hospital? Robert O'Connor: Well hopefully they have gotten the pulse back. Hopefully, the treatment in the field has been successful. That is the person collapses, there a bystander...
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Host: How exactly does CPR help a cardiac arrest victim? Robert O'Connor: Well the CPR has been around for about 40 or 50 years and we are really now starting to understand how the mechanics of it work and I think we are still far from completely ...
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Homocystiene Inflammation Markers Relation to Coronary Artery Disease CRP is a marker of inflammation. It stands for C-reactive protein. Homocysteine is another marker of inflammation. It is believed that coronary disease is a disease process of i...
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How Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake Affects Depression During Pregnancy The case of depression during pregnancy was an especially fascinating one and useful one, and that is that these fatty acids are so important, especially DHA, Decosahexaenoic Acid i...
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How Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake Affects Depression Even though we don’t really have specific and adequate data of treatment studies of omega-3 fatty acids in depression, I think it is fair and safe to extrapolate from the use of omega-3s and other d...
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Measuring Omega-3 Fatty Acid Blood Level It is very important to know what your omega-3 fatty acid blood status is. It is not really your diet that predicts your risk of disease; it’s your tissue. So as my histology professor used to say, the tiss...
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Dr. Frank J. Costa: As you know, in patients with cardiovascular disease or hypertension, there is some increased risk of plaque forming in the arteries. So the the blood flow to the sexual organs are also compromised and that can manifest itself ...
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Julie: Hi! My name is Julie from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My question is, is a heart murmur the same as arrhythmia? Ronald Berger: Julie, a heart murmur is completely different from arrhythmia. Heart murmur is a sound produced by the heart because of...
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The Advantages of an Internal Defibrillator Part ½ I went into cardiac arrest. I have no oxygen flowing to my brain, no heartbeat and I had that for four minutes. They had to resuscitate me but I still remain unconscious and I went into coma right...
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Dr. Lyle's High Cholesterol Patient Experience One of the great things about treating cholesterol and coronary disease is that we know that we have the ability to impact your cholesterol level. We know that we have the ability to halt the progress...
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Learn about Heart Disease in Women Part 2/3 Female: Women’s heart is a muscle that keeps her alive, gentle and beautiful like a red rose, it needs to be properly fed and cared for. Dr. Marjon Fariba: A women’s heart is a precious organ from which ...
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Returning Home Post Catheter Ablation So the post-procedure care really depends on what we do. Thanks to the advancement in electro physiology and what we can do to cure abnormal rhythm, more often than not is an outpatient procedure, and we go in...
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I was only allowed to life 15 pounds when I went home from the hospital or 10 pounds actually and milk jag weight seven but I couldn’t life a milk jag and I didn’t even try. And I had my husband and my mother there to help me. My mom was there eve...
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Recovery from Open-Heart Surgery The one who should be prepared for the fact that for a couple of days you actually feel very nervous about everything because you cannot walk the way you used to walk before you went to visit. I pretty much walked ...
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Who Would Benefit from Minimally Invasive Robotic Heart Surgery In general, any patient who would require an open-heart procedure for valve work, such as their mitral valve, their aortic valve, or bypass procedures done primarily in the left side ...
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The Advantages of Using a Robot during Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery I believe that the major advantage to minimally invasive surgery--the use of a robot, which allows you to use tiny incisions, decreases the trauma to the patient and allows fo...
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What is normal blood pressure? Rossa Knab: The optimum would be anything below 120 over 80. We would see a lot of fluctuations between people who have blood pressures that are very low and blood pressures that are very high. But as we tell all of ...
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Dr. Andrew Kaplan explains which devices and tests are used to diagnose an irregular heart rhythm.
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Mona Khanna: Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure. What that means is that your blood are not as resilient perhaps as they used to be and now when the blood is going through the blood vessels, much as you have water going through pipe...
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Martin Vanderwoude: Many Canadians don't even know this silent killer is stalking them. They go about their lives unaware there is a time bomb within, and they can't even hear it ticking. These two physicians are part of a major effort to change t...
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How to medicate for High Blood Pressure If you are among the 25% of Americans with high blood pressure you are first line of defense will usually be hypertension medication. If you have hypertension pressure your heart has to work hard to pump blo...
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Why is fish oil important? Dr. Ann Kulze: Fish oil is just a no brand or supplement when it comes to getting the all important Omega-3. Omega-3 is this you know its superstar essential nutrient is the darling of the healthy fat world, it is critic...
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Lyle Hurd: Dr. Cass, in an earlier exchange, we talked about fish oil. DHA, EPA. I understand that it is vital to embryo, a fetus, to, in the development of the brain, in the nervous system, the heart and some other areas. Also, it’s something tha...
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A treadmill stress test is a good basic test to see what the patient’s exercise tolerance is, how good of a shape she is in, depending on how long she exercises on the treadmill, but we also can see how the blood pressure responds to exercise. It ...
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So that’s a good question. Abnormal heart valves can actually be prone to developing infections, and so it’s important in patients who have abnormal heart valves to be very conscientious about the types of ways that bacteria can get in the bloodst...
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The presentation for heart pain, chest pain for men has always most likely been chest pain is middle of the chest, it is more achy pressure, it can radiate to the arms, it can cause them to have dizziness, shortness of breath with it. But it is no...
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Lyle Hurd: What is normal cholesterol? Robert Kowalski: Okay. Lyle Hurd: Is there normal cholesterol? Robert Kowalski: Yes, absolutely. The reality is this, we can’t live without cholesterol. If we didn’t have cholesterol, we would literally die. ...
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Host: Seem to hear a lot about old people worry about their cholesterol, but we are in pediatrics, should we worry about cholesterol even in little kids? Marc S. Jacobson: Even in little kids, but particularly those little kids who have parents or...
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Cholesterol #2: Consequences of a High Cholesterol. High cholesterol is the key risk factor in heart disease which is the biggest killer in America today, keep watching to learn more about this dangerous epidemic. Dr. Brian P. Kessler, M.D. Choles...
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Speaker: Monitoring cholesterol. Dr. Lee: The insulin resistance is associated with abnormalities in your cholesterol levels, not only in the quality but also the quantity of cholesterol that you have in your blood stream and it is thought that th...
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Female: Heart Disease affects more than 20 million Americans and is one of the leading causes of death in this country. But what exactly does the term Heart Disease mean? Male: When most people talk about Heart Disease, they usually mean Coronary ...
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Learn about Heart Attacks and Homeopathy Host: Heart attack, it’s everyone’s greatest fear as they indulge in a creamy dessert or light up the next cigarette. Heart attacks don’t just exist in the room of the elderly. Warning signs might not inclu...
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Male Speaker: Over the years heart attacks were thought by many in the medical community to be a problem for men only. Proof of this is that of most of the research in the 1940s and 50s about heart attack risk concentrated on men almost exclusivel...
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Female: When someone has a heart attack, they need to receive medical attention as soon as possible. How can you tell if you are experiencing a heart attack and how should you respond? Male: It can sometimes be hard to differentiate between the sy...
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Ravi Shankar: Hi! My name is Ravi Shankar, and I am from Auckland. My question to you doctor about cholesterol is, they say there are two kinds of cholesterol, one is HDL and LDL, which one of these is beneficial, which one is harmful? Leslie Cho:...
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Raena Morgan: Hello. I’m visiting with Dr. Benjamin Weeks. He is a professor of Biology at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. Dr. Weeks, in this discussion of vitamin C, we’ve come up with the fact that it helps with wound healing. Most ...
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What Atrial Fibrillation Is Steven Hiklen: Steven Hiklen, Medford Lakes, New Jersey. My dad has something called atrial fibrillation, is this dangerous and what could be done to reverse it or control it? Dr. Ronal Berger: Well Steven, atrial fibri...
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I am Mellanie True Hills. I am a heart patient advocate and the CEO of stopafib.org, an atrial fibrillation patient website. Atrial fibrillation is a quivering of the upper chambers of the heart called the atria. And when that happens, it’s possib...
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Lucy Piper: As we all know babies and children need plenty of sleep and it's not always at a time that's convenient with you. There are lots of reasons why children may feel drowsy and it' not always simply because they're exhausted. Mom Palvi cha...
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Beta-blockers are everywhere. If you’ve had a heart attack, you absolutely need a beta-blocker to decrease your risk of sudden cardiac death. It is the only drug; we have looked at many anti-arrhythmic drugs, and I am an electrophysiologist. I was...
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Why Women Ignore Heart Symptoms Because most of them are in denial, they are so used to taking care of other people, they are only family members and doing everything, when they have something that’s sort of an admiration, they say, “Oh, it’ll go ...
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We don’t really know what causes mitral valve prolapse. There’s no specific cause that’s been identified. It just appears that some group of patients just have a tendency to develop this abnormality and develop these heart sounds that can predict ...
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Interviewer: There is a condition that they essentially call as cushion defect, what does that mean? Doctor: Cushion defects or Endocardial Cushion defects are another relatively common form or congenital heart disease. They are particularly commo...
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[Music Playing] Judy: Welcome back everyone to the classroom workout. I am Judy and these are my fit kids. And today, we are going to be doing the aerobics so I want you to stand up, tuck in your chairs, make sure your books are all tucked in, fin...
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Dr. Susan Sharma: This is insider medicine and 60 From Kansas City - New research shows that nearly a third of patients who suffered from cardiac arrest were not defibrillated within the critical 2 minute window, cutting the chances of survival in...
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Female Speaker: Okay, here we have a mom who has been experiencing some engorgement but right now she is not overly uncomfortable. We are going to demonstrate viewers pressure softening. This release the edema that’s held in the areola and you wil...
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Lyle Hurd: Welcome. I am Lyle Hurd, editor and publisher of Total Health magazine. We’re visiting today with Dr. Parris Kidd. You’ve just recently completed a major study on DHA, EPAs and their importance to our entire organ system and our quality...
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Bradycardia are a loosely related term that encompasses any heart electrical problem that causes the heart rate to go slow. There’s a variety of heart rhythm disorders that could go slow; for example, as an aging effect one can have a loss of the ...
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Dr. Mona Khanna: Well as we age we have a tendency to have our blood pressure get higher anyway because our blood vessels are older and there is always some wear and tear they are becoming less resilient. The question is though if your blood press...
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If you have high blood pressure, what you eat is vital. A nutritionist explains the best diet for you in today’s health tip. Following the specifications of the diet known as the dietary approach to stop hypertension or dash can reduce high blood ...
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Male Speaker: Sharon Gray knows she is at risk like thousands of Canadians cardiovascular disease runs in her family. But Sharon is doing what she can to make here heart health a priority. Sharon Gray: I have high blood pressure and diabetes and I...
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Heart disease is a term that's often used inter tangibly with cardiovascular disease, but whatever you call it, almost half-a-million Americans die from it each year. Cardiovascular disease refers to a range of diseases that affect your heart or b...
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Question: How prevalent is cardiovascular disease? Dr. Amy Epps: As everyone probably knows now, I mean, it's the most common killer in the United States. Cardiovascular disease out ways the next five or six common causes of death, when you add th...
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Question: How is aspirin used for people with cardiovascular disease? Aspirin in an emergency: Dr. Amy Epps: I think that the first thing you need to do, if you're having one of the concerning warning signs for heart attack especially with the che...
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And a simple answer to that is "no." A patient who has simple mitral valve prolapse picked up by their doctor on the stethoscope does not need to be treated as long as the valve is working well, as long as the valve is not leaking. But what is nec...
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How Heart Valve Repair Improved Her Life - Divya's Story I would see of course it has because it had deteriorated and it needed to be replaced or it would have caused complications. It would have really mudded up my life further. You know its not ...
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Life Changes after Heart Valve Repair Surgery - Divya's Story My initial levels have really gone up, I can see a perceptive difference in my energy levels. I can exercise a lot longer, I have no headaches or I look and feel a lot better than when ...
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Melissa Medalie: Sixty-two-year-old Bill Bondar arrived home energized from a jam session with his new band... that's when the unthinkable happened. Bill Bondar: I was coming back from my car carrying my guitar. Never made it. Melissa Medalie: Mon...
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Heart Attack Risks With Caffeine Caffeine does not usually cause heart attacks. What caffeine does is it stimulates the heart so that your heart rate is faster. If your heart gets irritable, especially if you have an abnormal heart, there are irri...
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Host: What can a cardiac arrest witness or bystander expect to happen once help arrives? Robert O'Connor: Well you have a rescue team take over CPR. If the defibrillator hasn't been used yet, the rescue team will have want to perform defibrillatio...
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Host: How can someone who witnesses a cardiac arrest help? Robert O'Connor: The first thing is they should just call for help, get a phone or ask someone to call 911 to get help on their way. The second step is if the person is unresponsive, they ...
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Host: Is there a difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest? Robert O'Connor: If a physician says to a patient that they have had a heart attack, it usually means that they have had a myocardial infarction which in plain terms is blockag...
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This is Insidermedicine in 60. From Montreal, a new study from McGill University shows that those who know their risk for heart attack are more likely to lower their cholesterol. Researchers studied over 3000 patients with high cholesterol and sho...
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What is Coronary Artery Disease? Dr. Christopher Nielsen: Coronary artery disease is one of the most common diseases in this country, and that's the most common condition that cardiologists see, and that is build up of plaque inside the arteries a...
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How Omega-3 Fatty Acids Help Treat Depression Omega-3s are one class of essential fatty acids, meaning that we have to have these in our diet, and these are not so easy to get because there aren’t that many dietary resources of them; the best one ...
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Sonia: Hi my name is Sonia from Auckland. What are the benefits of omega 3? Susan Aaronson: Sonia, there are many benefits of omega 3 fatty acids and you should definitely include them in your diet. Omega 3 is scanned decrease your over all total ...
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How Statins Can Help Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Statin drugs are the most powerful drugs that we have found to lower LDL cholesterol, which is commonly called bad cholesterol, and I think there are definitely indications for them, but a ...
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This is Insidermedicine in 60. From Houston - Some researchers are calling for men to receive a vaccine, that was developed for cervical cancer. This is because the HPV virus that is responsible for causing the majority of cervical cancers has als...
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The cuff is completely empty and flat before starting. The pulse is felt in the artery in front of the elbow. Clothing is moved up out of the way or removed. The cuff is wrapped around the arm, smooth and secured. The pulse is felt again and the s...
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Kristi Awaits a Heart Transplant Kristi: Just out of the blue, and I started having tightness in the chest, I couldn’t breathe. Male: Because she had a fever and don’t feel good, she went to the -- and they gave her some medicine. Kristi: And they...
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Jennifer Matthews: A quarter of people with heart disease will first feel the signs of the disease right where you'd expect. Dr. Samuel Butman: It's a heavy feeling. It's a pressure feeling. It's like an elephant sitting on your chest. Jennifer Ma...
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Interviewer: There are holes between the left and right side ventricles and sometimes they are very tiny. The tiny once, their champs would not even close, is that correct. You do not have to really close the really tiny once. And sometimes Mother...
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Why Carol Became More Healthy After Heart Surgery Health is what it’s all about and lifestyle, for a lot of people it requires a massive change in lifestyle. I already was always active and athletic and so I led a pretty healthy lifestyle. I alway...
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Dr. John Ikonomidis: So we generally recommend that if you are on Aspirin or Plavix that you stop those for at least 5 days before you have your operation to make it easier for us to do the surgery and stop the bleeding after it. But other than th...
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Jennifer Matthews: A conversation with former Navy man Scott Gillogly can seem like storytime. Five years ago, Scott had a new story to tell. Scott Gillogly: Felt like somebody shot me through the chest with a 30 odd 6. I hit the ground. I mean I ...
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Andrew: I'm Andrew from Orono, Maine. Can you explain the difference between HDL and LDL which is good, which is bad and does blood type have any effect on their levels? Dr. Mimi Ghosh: Thank you for your question Andrew. Cholesterol is transporte...
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How Often Should Cholesterol Levels Be Checked As an adult you should be tested once a year. It’s important to know exactly what your levels are and they can fluctuate on a yearly basis. Your primary care physician may not order them and you shoul...
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The Best Options to Lower Your Cholesterol Level Statins, as far as medications go, are very important component of lowering cholesterol. They are the drug of choice. They are some of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world and they do a ver...
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Getting the Best Care for Heart Arrhythmia I think once you are diagnosed that you are aware of the abnormal heart rhythm, the most important thing is that someone who understands electrical system of the heart is able to, number one, capture the ...
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Martha: My name is Martha and I am from Richmond, California. Can having Arrhythmia cause me to have a fatal heart attack? Ronald Berger: Martha, Arrhythmia and heart attack are really very different phenomena. Arrhythmia is an irregular or rapid ...
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Dr. Skloven describes the distinct differences between primary pulmonary hypertension and secondary pulmonary hypertension.
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Dr. Sekar Kathiresan discusses the risks for coronary artery disease and how a healthy lifestyle can mitigate some risk factors.
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Learn about heart palpitations, also known as irregular heart beat and specifically mitral valve prolapse.
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So the symptoms of heart valve disease actually are very common, very similar amongst the different valve types. The most common symptom of someone with heart valve disease is shortness of breath; shortness of breath either with exertion, with act...
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Learn about Angioplasty Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or PTCA often abbreviated to angioplasty is a procedure to reopen a narrowed coronary artery. The heart muscle is supplied with oxygen by blood arriving through the coronary ar...
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Speaker: What are trans fatty acids? Jeannette Bessinger: Trans fatty acids also known as trans fats or an altered form of vegetable oil. They where design in the first place to prolong the shelf life of food. So if they take a -- they start with ...
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Mary: Hi, I'm Mary. I live in Venice Beach and I first heard about trans fats about five years ago and I want to know what they are and what they do to you and why they are so bad for you? Bonnie Jortberg: Trans fats actually have been something t...
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Mike: Hi, I'm Mike, 56 from Trego, Montana. I was wondering what amount of trans fats are negligible for my health? Lara Field: Well, Mike a lot of people actually ask that question. Trans fats like saturated fat and cholesterol actually increase ...
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Male Speaker: Time now for a Health for Life minute. Female Speaker: Hi, Mrs. Smith how are you doing this morning? Female Speaker: Hi. Female Speaker: Medications can be a big part of your treatment after a heart attack. Female Speaker: Do you ha...
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I’ve been on heart medication. Doctor has me on to different things the Tylenol and Plavix, Aspirin, diuretics. One of the things I’ve noticed is a little bit of hair loss and my hair is thinning. He says it could be the medication. It could be ol...
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What’s a MUFAT? Female 1: A MUFA I forgot what’s stand for. Female 2: A MUFA Mono Unsaturated Fat. Female 3: MUFA is the Mono Unsaturated Fatty Acid Food and those are found in healthy plant fat. Female 1: Okay, a MUFA is a good fat. Female 4: Tho...
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How Kathy Found Out She Needed an Open Heart Surgery He was going to go in and put some stents in, and everything was going to be fine. I was going to get out of there in a couple of days and go home, and everything was going to be great. And then...
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I think I was different than most people. I in the hospital the first that I was in a regular room which was the second day after my surgery, was told I could go home if I could walk the floor four times in a day, so I got lot of my bed and walk t...
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EmpowHer What is the difference between EPA and DHA in fish oil? Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, M.D. Fellowship Director The world’s at rage right now with omega 3s and most everybody knows about it their everywhere. It’s in dog food. It’s in eggs, milk, n...
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Julie: Hi! My name is Julie from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My question is, is a heart murmur the same as Arrhythmia? Ronald Berger: Julie, a Heart murmur is completely different from Arrhythmia. Heart murmur is a sound produced by the heart because of...
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This is Insidermedicine in 60. From Germany, having a sibling with a so-called left anterior descending coronary artery disease is an important risk factor for developing heart disease. Those whose siblings had this problem were three times more l...
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Dr. Arthur Agatston: I’m Dr. Agatston, Preventions from the Heart Doctor. And we are going to talk about carbohydrates, just the few years ago everyone seem to be counting carbs. That low carb diet was very popular, what we know now is not all car...
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Dr. Shalizeh Shokooh: Women and men have difference in the fact that they are different because women have the estrogen to protect them until menopause and so usually women have higher HDL, the good cholesterol, but as they get older they may see ...
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So after a catheter-based ablation, because it’s more often than not a minimally invasive procedure, what we’re doing is accessing the vein, the low pressure pipe in the groin area. Sometimes we may have to access the neck vein for additional acce...
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Success Rate of Catheter Ablations The catheter ablation’s success rate depends on what type of arrhythmia. More frequently and not for abnormal circuits, single points or very defined circuits, the success rate can be over 98% to be able to get r...
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Taking Medication Post Catheter Ablation Often after the abnormal rhythm is ablated, it should be considered curative procedure, and often all the abnormal circuits are gone for good. So medication are usually just stopped right away, but it depen...
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How an Electrophysiologist Knows Which Catheter Ablation is Best Here are many clues that will give us to see where we may have to ablate. Sometimes by looking at the clues that we have, whether it is surface electrocardiogram, recording of the ab...
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Atherosclerosis means the build-up of plaque in the arteries. It could be in the arteries that go to your heart muscle; it could be the arteries that go to your brain; it could be in the arteries that feed your legs. So that means atherosclerosis ...
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Elizabeth Somer: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Somer, registered dietitian and I'm here to give you some tips on how to shop to lower your risk for heart disease. You know, I think there is a lot of myths about heart disease, for one thing we think it's you k...
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Dr. Dean Edell: Heart Disease is the number one killer of men and women in the U.S., beating all forms of cancer combined. And stroke doesn't fall far behind in the number three spot. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for both conditions ...
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Hello, my name is Brian Mitchell and I am going to present to you here in a video, more of a slide show really, the general theory of vitamin C and heart disease as proposed by Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. Mathias Rath. Before I get started, I would ...
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Host: Taking your blood pressure at home can help you control your levels and it’s simple to do. You should take readings at the same time each day such as before you take your medications in the morning and before bedtime at night. Don’t smoke. D...
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Pam Peeke: We all have issues and excuses when it comes to taking care of our health. Just give me two minutes of your time and I’ll help you figure out what to do with yours. So tell me, here you are walking around New York City, do you have any ...
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Sherri Dmyterko: It's the first innovation in hypertension treatment in more than a decade. Rasilex has received Health Canada approval for the treatment of mild to moderate high blood pressure. Dr. Subodh Verma is a cardiac surgeon at St. Michael...
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Mike Roussell: So the next macronutrient, fats. Now fats or triglycerides are made up of fatty acids and glycerol so that's what triglyceride is. They're also in the class like amino acids, there are essential fatty acids, specifically like the Om...
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Heart Attack vs. Heart Failure Dr. Jim: We've mentioned the term heart attack and heart failure. When you explain kind of the difference between those two? Male: When somebody has a heart attack, it’s the initial injury that occurs to the heart wh...
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What Is Heart Failure Heart failure is s syndrome. It really is a combination of symptoms where patients are of short of breath, fatigue due to many possible different causes where basically the patient cannot do the right activities of daily livi...
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Jennifer Matthews: Michelle Whitlock says the anticipated joy of her son Drew's birth five months ago was overshadowed by fear. Michelle Whitlock: He never did pink up. He was still blue. They were giving him oxygen, and his levels were still very...
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Myocarditis and Sudden Cardiac Deaths in Young Athletes Well, myocarditis is usually a viral infection that affects the heart muscle. It represents about 5% of those individuals who will die suddenly. In other words, a child or a teenager has a re...
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Brenda: Hi! My name is Brenda and I am from Fairborn, Ohio. I heard that back pain can be connected to the onset of a heart attack. Is this true? And where would I feel it in my back? Andrew Sama: Thank you for your question, Brenda. It's a very i...
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Genetics and Lifestyle Effects on High Cholesterol Levels Here at McKee Medical Center our thought is that the cornerstone of understanding your cholesterol problem is to understand you as a person. It’s important to get a detailed history of some...
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One of my best ideas is to promote health by nourishing with herbs. One of my favorite herbs to use as a nurture is Oatstraw. In the Ayurvedic tradition of India, Oatstraw is considered the herb of immortality and it's said that if you drink Oatst...
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Raena Morgan: Dr. Jorn Dyerberg is an expert in the field of nutrition and a pioneer in the research of Omega 3s. Dr. Dyerberg, could you tell us how Omega 3s— how do they affect coronary health? Dr. Jorn Dyerberg: That’s a big question because ov...
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Learn about Cholesterol Spread, Cruises and Canoeing Female: So you have your cholesterol test and it’s over 5.5. Well, you’re not alone. Millions are saying goodbye to that morning dairy and lunch time pizza. It’s time to get that LDL or bad chol...
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Lyle Hurd: We are happy to welcome back Robert Kowalski with us the author of “The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure”, “The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure” Could you tell us a little about plant sterols, what they are and how they fit into this whole equation?...
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[Music Playing] How to decrease cholesterol, by a diet to lower cholesterol Brought to you by: www.ADietToLowerCholesterol.com Dlynda Lardone The newest craze these days that is going around is everyone being concerned with high cholesterol. There...
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[Music Playing] Diet To Lower Cholesterol: Three Issues You Need To Understand Brought To You By: www.ADietToLowerCholesterol.com Dlyndia Lardone In order for people to learn how to develop a good diet to lower cholesterol, there are some things t...
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Female: Cholesterol! You hear the word a lot, but what exactly is cholesterol and why should you be concerned about it. Male: Cholesterol is a fatty substance found among the lipids, in the bloodstream, and in cells throughout the body. Cholestero...
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Understanding Cholesterol Cholesterol #1: What is Cholesterol? Cholesterol, you hear the word all the time. But what it is really mean? And should you care? Dr. Brian P. Kessler, M.D. Cholesterol is a waxy fat like substances found in the blood st...
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Female: Cholesterol, you hear the word all the time, but what does it really mean and why should you care? Male1: Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in the bloodstream and in cells throughout the body. Because it often has negative co...
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Female: If you are among the 18% of Americans with high cholesterol, you might be wondering is there a quick cure. Male: Unfortunately, there is no magic food or pill that will immediately reduce your cholesterol levels. All the best way to lower ...
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Female: Whether you are in the 18% of Americans with high cholesterol or not, you can benefit from living a low cholesterol lifestyle. Male: A low cholesterol lifestyle involves making conscious decisions to eat, play and live in a way that will h...
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Why Is It Important To Cure Atrial Fibrillation? Dr. Brian deGuzman: I think the biggest reason to cure it is probably two-fold; one to reduce stroke risk and two, to increase patient’s cardiac function and reduce the longstanding effects from atr...
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Learn About Women and Heart Attacks We’ve learned lots in the last five years about women and their heart attacks. For instance, believe it or not, women who are under 50 who have their first heart attacks is twice as likely to die of their first ...
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How to Avoid Having a Heart Attack The symptoms at the onset of a heart attack are unlike those experienced by Chief Brown. Oftentimes it’s a heaviness described in the center of the chest and sometimes that heaviness in the chest also accompanied...
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Raena Morgan: Dr. Thompson, you say that 1.2 million people will die of heart attacks this year and of those, 350,000 people will die before they even get to the hospital? Dr. Owen Thompson: That's right Raena. 1.2 million Americans will have a he...
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Raena Morgan: Dr. Thompson simply put, what's the best prevention for heart attack? Is it lifestyle and diet? Is it that simple? Owen R Thompson: Well, lifestyle and diet are not simple. That's right! But you know Raena it probably is. It probably...
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Raena Morgan: Are heart attacks hereditary? Dr. Owen Thompson: They tend to be, but not everybody. Somebody is the first in every family to do at everything, but, they very much tend to be, and researches has shown that in the population in Americ...
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Raena Morgan: What about people who have survived a heart attack, Dr. Thompson? What should they do to prevent another one? Dr. Owen Thompson: Well, there's a lot they should do, and the first thing they should do is pay attention to their bodies,...
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Symptoms Before Heart Surgery - Divya's Story Hi, I’m Divya. I’m a mother of two and 34 years old. Last year, I’ve got to know that I had a Congenital Heart Defect and a wall which needed to repair or replacement. It was a scary experience to get ...
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Symptoms before Heart Problem was Diagnosed - Divya's Story I am Divya; I’m a mother of two and 34-years old last year. I got to know that I had a congenital heart defect and a wall which needed repair or replacement. It was a scary experience to ...
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Coronary bypass surgery attempts to correct this serious problem. In order to restore normal blood flow.
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Coronary bypass surgery attempts to correct this serious problem. In order to restore normal blood flow.
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Coronary bypass surgery attempts to correct this serious problem. In order to restore normal blood flow.
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How Palpitations and Heart Conditions Differ Joel: Hello I'm Joel from Memphis, Tennessee. Sometimes my heart starts randomly beating fast for a few seconds, how can I tell if this is a heart condition or just stress. Dr. Melvyn Rubenfire: Joel, t...
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Ladies, if you are pregnant and you are experiencing palpitations or extra heartbeats, most of the time these are benign. Sometimes they can come from the top chambers of the heart. Sometimes they come from the bottom chambers of the heart. One of...
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Jennifer Matthews: Millions of Americans have chest pain, but a heart problem isn't always the culprit. Dr. Vasken Dilsizian: It's a very difficult diagnosis to make whether chest pain is coming from the heart or not. Jennifer Matthews: Unless pat...
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An ECG and an EKG are the same exact thing. It’s an electrocardiogram. Both of them are of the heart. It is different than an EEG, which is when a neurologist will check the electricity currents in the brain. An echocardiogram is different than in...
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What Can Women Do To Decrease Their Level of Cardiovascular Risk? Well I think women need to absolutely know the specific information about what they can do to reduce their level of cardiovascular risk, heart attack and stroke. There are many thin...
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How do omega-3s affect the cardiovascular system? Sue Brennan: Well, researchers have identified that EPA and DHA are important components of the anti-inflammatory response. If we don’t have enough of those, then you have more of a pro-inflammator...
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If you have a family history of heart disease or heart attacks, it does not guarantee that you will or won’t have heart disease. If you look back at that family member’s risk factor profile and see if there’s anything that you can modify, that’s g...
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Host: Does surviving a cardiac arrest put you at risk for another occurrence? Robert O'Connor: In general with most patients who survive cardiac arrest unless there is a reversible cause, they will receive a permanent defibrillator. At least, they...
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Male: Is the condition Sudden Cardiac Arrest which is not a heart attack okay. Can you explain the different of a heart attack and the term you used the Sudden Cardiac Arrest? Doctor: Sure, a heart attack occurs when there is diminish blood flow, ...
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Recovery from Robotic Cardiac Surgery Normally for, let’s say valve surgery, the normal hospital stay is around a week. Most people require about two weeks after that to get back to about 60% of the normal activity. Patients who have sternotomies ...
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How Many Robotic Cardiac Surgeries Has Dr Raczkowski Performed I have been doing robotic cardiac surgery since 2003, and I have done over 500 surgeries, so it makes me one of the most experienced surgeons in the country. There’s no question that a...
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The Risk of Heart Surgery Dr. Christopher Nielsen: Any time we do an invasive procedure; there is always a small risk of bleeding, infection, damage to the blood vessels as we go into them. Those are very, very rare. The other more serious risks w...
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There are five triggers that we used to call them, Dr. Meyer Friedman used to call five triggers to preventing a second heart attack. First is a very extreme burst of exercise, one high-fat meal, high altitude, prolonged aggravation irritation, an...
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How Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake Affects Heart Disease Women should ensure that they get adequate amounts of omega-3 fatty acids for multiple reasons of health. For example, when we look across countries we find that almost 30 percent of premature mo...
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Will: I am Will from Niceville, 15 and I want to know the benefits of mega 3 fatty acid? Julie Schwartz: Will the benefits of the mega 3 fatty acids are numerous, there is so much research going on and I think that the benefits are going to keep e...
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A lot of women can get chest discomfort or tightness, just like a man can get. The pain or the discomfort can go down the left arm; sometimes people say it goes down the right arm. It could go up into the jaw or neck or into the back. Then you cou...
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My favorite alternative supplement for treatment of high blood pressure is L-arginine. This is essential acid, amino acid, which happens to have a natural effect of vasal dilating, okay? Aside from being a very effective anti-hypertensive agent, i...
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Well, that was a challenge because I moved from the Verde Valley down here two years ago, and actually I went to a friend with a nurse and took the recommendation from her. And I was familiar with the Scottsdale area and that’s really, even though...
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This is Insider Medicine in 60 from Paris, according to research and The Lancet Neurology statins can Crestor risk by one fifth. In a middle of north since of over 165 thousand patience. Research is found that the incidents of stroke risk reduced ...
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Wanda Awaits a Heart Transplant Wanda: I’ve been dealing with heart trouble for about 11 or 12 years. My daily life with a heart condition is a quite a struggle. There are days when I can’t even get out of the bed. I need a heart transplant becaus...
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Tim's Long Wait for a Heart Transplant Tim: Back in the April 2008, I was doing the dishes and then all of a sudden, I couldn’t breathe. Female: He was having something called the tachycardia, where his heart was beating probably over 200 beats pe...
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During a balloon angioplasty, a heart specialist will insert a thin tube into an artery in your arm or leg and gently guide.
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Dr. Arthur Agatston: I’m Dr. Agatston Preventions from The Heart, and I would like to talk to you about Statin Drugs, these are drugs I’m sure you heard about like Lipitor, Crestor, Mevacor, Pravachol, Zocor and these drugs lower your cholesterol ...
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Do Women Heart Specialist Work Better with Women I think that it’s too generalized. I think that there are great heart surgeons that are very good; the problem is recognition of the heart disease. What we are finding out from the studies that were...
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Helaine: Hi, I am Helaine from Bradenton Florida. Are ALA supplements is effective as fish oil in lowering the risk of heart disease? Matthew Sorrentino: Hi Helaine, ALA are one of the good oils that we recommend as a nutritional substitute. They ...
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What Is Angina? Dr. Amy Epps: Angina is the symptom that you get when your arteries to your heart muscle are blocked. Angina is the pain, it's the discomfort, it's the pressure in the chest that is caused by blockage of the heart arteries to that ...
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Ben: Hi, my name is Ben from Austin, Texas and I'm wondering, can an EC really help cure angina? Joon Lee: Well, Ben an EC is one of, if you will, supplement that have cropped up of late and I believe that it is a pladus plant that's found in the ...
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John: I am John from Boise. What is Prinzmetal's Angina and what can be done about it? Leslie Cho: Hi John! Prinzmetal's Angina is a term that was used in the past for chest pain caused by coronary artery spasm. It's a very specific diagnosis and ...
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High cholesterol is a key risk factor in heart disease which is the biggest killer in America today. The earliest symptoms of coronary artery disease are usually shortness of breath and chest pain which is called angina. Episodes of angina most co...
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Male Speaker: The mitral or bicuspid valve lies between the left atrium and ventricle, one of the heart's four valves is the only one with two rather than three flaps. As viewed from underneath an opened valve shows that attached each valve flap t...
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Learn About Heart Valve Disease Hello, I’m Dr. Lishan Aklog. I’m the Director of the Medical Advisory Board from EmpowHer.com. I’m a Heart Surgeon and the Chief of Heart Surgery at Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Phoenix, Arizona. I...
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There are a variety of causes of heart disease. The most common is a process that’s simply called degenerative heart disease, which is essentially wear and tear of the valves and the various components, structures of the valve that prevent it from...
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Good Cholesterol vs. Bad Cholesterol There are many different types of cholesterol. A lot of people know that there’s a good type and a bad type. What they are referring to is what we call the bad cholesterol is the LDL cholesterol. LDL stands for...
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Female Speaker: Welcome to Watchmojo.com. Today's health tip is on Trans fats. Trans fat are something that you definitely, definitely want to avoid. Recent being is that not only it does that give you bad cholesterols such as saturated fats, but ...
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Jack: Hi my name is Jack from Montgomery Alabama. Like to know whether health effects of Trans fats are. Julie Schwartz: Jack the health risk associated with Trans fats are very similar to those associated with the saturated fats. They increase ou...
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How She Felt When She Woke From Open-Heart Surgery - Divya's Story When I got back as in you know I opened my eyes and I could feel and sense stuff and they had a breathing tube in my mouth and my hands were tied and that was very, very scary. And...
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Amanda Junker: Research about the effects of caffeine on blood pressure has been mix. But one study from Duke University Medical center found that caffeine consumption of 500 milligrams or more increase blood pressure by 4 millimeters of mercury. ...
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Sherri Dmyterko: Do you know what causes more deaths each year in Canada than Aids and breast cancer combined? Male Speaker: I would say heart disease. Male Speaker: I think cancers are biggest killer. Sherri Dmyterko: Would you be surprised to le...
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Host: What are the different reasons why a heart could stop? Robert O'Connor: By finding way the most common reason is atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which is possibly a normal product of aging and a normal result of aging, but when...
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Dr. Susan Sharma: This is insidermedicne in 60 From Paris - The case of a man whose heart had stopped beating for 1.5 hours and was revived just as doctors were preparing to harvest his organs is sparking ethical debates in France. The man had suf...
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E.R. physician Dr. Travis Stork explains how Niemann-Pick disease affects the body.
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Interviewer: Sometimes, kids can you relate her. They tell me something wrong with the aorta. There is a narrowing coarc of something, what is all about? Doctor: Coarctation in the aorta is another common type of congenital heart disease and we pu...
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How Can Heart Failure Patients Be Treated Treatment for heart failure has dramatically improved over the years. Currently we know a combination medication has improved quality of life, length of life and get patients out of the hospital. Combinati...
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How to Prevent Heart Failure Prevention of heart failure would be important to recognize in terms of prevention of heart disease. To prevent heart attack, we want patients to exercise regularly, to eat low cholesterol foods and to take medicine li...
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Male Speaker: Time now for a Health for Life minute. Female Speaker: When it comes to diseases affecting older Americans, congestive heart failure sends more Medicare patients to the hospital every year than any other disease. But where does the t...
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A cardiac catheterization is also called a left heart catheterization or an angiogram. That’s a procedure where we numb up the patient’s groin area where there is a big blood vessel, and we put a small tube and feed it up into the heart blood vess...
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The Robotic Cardiac Surgery Program at Banner Heart Hospital What makes Banner Heart Hospital’s robotic cardiac program unique? There are several factors. Banner Heart Hospital is one of the largest heart hospitals in the nation. It is dedicated p...
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What is Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome and is it serious? ICYOU.com's Valerie Scott, M.D. answers.
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Lyle Hurd: I need to share with you and anecdote of a conversation I had with Dr. Steven Sinatra, our mutual friend, who has to be probably the brightest cardiologist that I’ve ever met— Dr. Parris Kidd: Oh, for sure, Lyle. Lyle Hurd: And I was as...
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Raena Morgan: We’re speaking with Bjorn Rene. He’s been in the field of omega 3s for 30 years. I would like to ask how you distill—the molecular distillation of the cod liver oil and some of the benefits of taking it. Bjorn Rene: You know we have—...
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Jorn Dyerberg: We should say that both omega 6s and omega 3s have positive effects on human health and they are essential. If we don’t get them, we’ll have deficiencies, for both omega 6s and omega 3s. But it is so that westernized diet, the omega...
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound for Early Detection of Heart Disease Travis: But there is and quick task they could help you from becoming a medical statistic. Dr. Darren Clair is here with his patient Brigita and his technician Don to use a non-invasiv...
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How to Preventing Heart Disease from Childhood Dr. Travis Stork: Heart Disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in this country killing over 630,000 people each and every year but there’s good news, you can begin reversing hear...
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Heart Disease Education in the MEGA Heart Dr. Travis: You’ve see actual human organs like kidneys, livers even lungs on the show. The cameraman will wear rubber gloves to handle them, but you don’t often see a heart you can actually walk through. ...
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5 Strategies For Preventing Heart Disease If I had to pick five strategies to reduce the risk of heart disease, I'm going to start with one that every conventional doctor in America that hears this is going to roll their eyes, but all the doctors ...
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Erectile Dysfunction Might be an Early Sign of Heart Disease Andrew Holtz: You’ve seen the ads but rheumatic failure may not be the most serious thing to worry about, erectile dysfunction maybe a warning sign of cardiovascular disease including he...
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Raena Morgan: Bruce, How does coconut oil affect heart disease? Are there some studies out there, some scientific studies out there? Dr. Bruce Fife: One of the big factors of confusion with coconut oil is that people think that it promotes heart d...
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Lifestyle Modifications That Defend Against Heart Disease I have been a big proponent of using lifestyle modification as the first line of defense against heart disease. If you are not doing that and you are just taking medications, you are doing ...
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Cardiovascular What is Heart Disease? Dr. Amy Epps: Heart disease is a disease process that affects the heart and the vessels in the vascular system. It can affect the actual vessels in the heart, the muscle of the heart, the conduction system of ...
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Raena Morgan: Dr. Thompson, say you make it to the hospital, you're having heart attack, and you're lucky enough to get to the hospital in time. What kind of high tech advances are we looking at that are going to save lives? Dr. Owen Thompson: Tru...
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Raena Morgan: We're talking with Dr. Dyerberg from Copenhagen. He is an expert in the field of nutrition, particularly where it concerns the heart. Dr. Dyerberg, what was it about the Eskimo population that attracted your attention? Dr. Jorn Dyerb...
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Female Speaker: If your heart health isn't exactly up to par, make the choice to get back on track. Simple lifestyle changes can make a huge impact on your overall heart health. Dr. Edward J. Roccella: There are few other lifestyle changes that pe...
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Dr. Artour Rakhimov: When people get heart attacks, what type do they breathing, let us read the following cause from wester style end-tidal CO2 could provide a highly sensitive predictor of return of spontaneous circulation during cardiopulmonary...
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Male Speaker: As a cardiologist, Christopher Leet dispenses advice to his patients about how to leave a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Christopher Leet: Exercise is very important. Stress is a real big item and diets are really important. Male Speaker: Bu...
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Female Speaker 1: zuma Catherin is taking aim at a new target living with the transplanted heart. Female Speaker 2: It’s all new, everything is new and just like your first day at high school. Female Speaker 1: Zuma was a healthy 15-year old when ...
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Alexis: We do not practice prevention, we respond to fear. That is basically how we take care of ourselves when it comes to disease. So, we will go out and work out really like to look good, but will we change our diet to prevent heart disease. [M...
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Female: Heart disease affects more than 20 million Americans and is one of the leading causes of death in this country. But what exactly does the term heart disease mean? Male: Most people talk about heart disease, they usually mean coronary arter...
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Hi, I am Joe Graedon, I am a pharmacologist. I write the syndicated news paper column with People’s Pharmacy and co-host the radio show. Heart disease is still our number one killer. Over a million people suffer a heart attack every year. One out ...
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During a balloon angioplasty, a heart specialist will insert a thin tube into an artery in your arm or leg and gently guide it towards the problem area in your heart.
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I had no idea I had a problem. I had no signs or symptoms and I didn’t even know when I left there that there was anything wrong you just hold me that I had something going on in my heart that was probably nothing maybe congenital and it might I t...
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We really don’t know why so many athletes have atrial fibrillation. Some of it maybe due to the fact that because they exercise so much and in many cases their heart rates are dipping very low because they are in such a great condition that there’...
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If you suspect that you have the symptoms of atrial fibrillation, you need to see at least a cardiologist, a heart doctor, but even better, an electrophysiologist. That is a doctor that specializes in heart rhythms. You may possibly get diagnosed ...
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For me it was really less of an issue. I hear a lot of people talk about how they went through depression or a constant feeling of being imperfect, you know an imperfection, for me that wasn’t really the case. I come from a perspective of "Give me...
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Dr. E'rika Brock: Hi! I am Dr. E'rika Brock and today we'll be talking to you how to get rid of back pain. In this segment, we'll be speaking to you about the knee to chest exercise. Now you want to start in the same position that you were in when...
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What Women Should Know Before Heart Surgery For women heart surgery is a little bit different from men. One of the things that doctors don’t think to tell us is that you may need a different bra. If you’re having open heart surgery, you are going ...
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How Robotic Cardiac Surgery Improved Valve Repair Outcomes Mitral valve, as an example, we have gone through an evolution where we replaced mitral valves once they got bad enough, and over the last 10-15 years the idea of repairing those normal va...
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Host: Open heart surgery at Schneider Children's Hospital I know there were conferences all over the place involves the surgeon, the cardiologist, the people like you, all get together because you gain some things from surgery and some times you h...
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If you are among the 18% of Americans with high cholesterol, you might be wondering, is there a quick cure? Well, the best way to lower cholesterol is to cut out saturated fats. There are a number of substances that may help speed up the process. ...
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How to Deal with High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol On behalf of tvlesson.com this is Rachael Richardson a licence nutritionist with Nutrolution.com. Let’s talk about some nutritional tips for heart health and hearth health is one of this heart a...
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Blood pressure or BP is the pressure exerted by the blood flow on the walls of the arteries. It is the determined by the force and amount of blood pumped by the heart and by the diameter of the arteries. It consists of two components Systolic pres...
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Melissa Medley: Hazelene Jackson loves to make up her family's favorite meals. Standing over a hot stove or grill became more than her body could take. Hazelene has battled hypertension since she was 12 years old. Hazelene Jackson: My blood pressu...
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The Correlation Between Daily Aspirin Intake and Decrease of Heart Attack Will taking a daily aspirin decrease a woman’s heart attack risk? If you are women without previous heart attack or stroke the most current data is pretty strong in indicati...
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The Side Effects of Cholesterol Lowering Medications Understanding the side effects of cholesterol lowering medicines like statins is very important. This is a common question that people have for us. The concerns are of the liver function and als...
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Narrator: More than 40% of Canadian ages 20-79 have unhealthy cholesterol levels putting them at increased risk of heart of heart disease. Dr. Peter Jones Director of the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University ...
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Mike: I was 24 years old. I was really heavy. I kept on getting sick. I was fatigued all the time. I knew something was wrong with my body. It came back that I had elevated cholesterol, my triglyceride were out of whack and on top of it all I had ...
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Raena Morgan: Bruce, with all the concern about fats and cholesterol, does coconut oil affect cholesterol? Dr. Bruce Fife: Well, that’s an interesting question because a lot of people are confused on that. Raena Morgan : I bet they are! Dr. Bruce ...
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Raena Morgan: We’ve mentioned medications, Dr. Thompson. What about natural supplements? What have you seen in your practice that you’ve used that’s been successful? Dr. Owen Thompson: You know, it’s a very good point, there are a lot of supplemen...
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Lyle Hurd: We’re talking with Robert Kowalski, the author of “The new 8-week Cholesterol Cure” We have talked about diet in the past, how important is exercise to maintaining and establishing and maintaining good cholesterol? Robert Kowalski: Well...
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Lyle Hurd: We are back with Robert Kowalski, the author of “The new 8-Week Cholesterol Cure” We haven’t talked about lowering cholesterol, now I understand that there are three major paths, would you explain what the three are and lets attack them...
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Lyle Hurd: It’s a pleasure to welcome Robert Kowalski back author of “The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure” Tell us about niacin, I am a big fan of niacin and tell us the kind of niacin we should be looking for. Robert Kowalski: Alright, I will tell yo...
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Host: Experts agree that maintaining a healthy weight is a key strategy for anyone with heart health concerns. Controlling cholesterols and blood sugar are also important. That's why recent research published in the Nutrition journal is generating...
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Male Speaker: American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending cholesterol testing, probably kids above six years and above, probably because it goes hand to hand with the obesity problem. But if you kept the kid's weight down, providing that no...
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You know what I saw yesterday, I know what you saw yesterday, I know what you read, what you saw on the news. I woke up yesterday and I went to cnn.com as I always do, and I saw the story that just blew my mind and the title of the story was chole...
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That’s a good question. It’s not really one of the most helpful things. One of the most helpful things is knowing their numbers, knowing what their cholesterol numbers are--triglycerides, HDL, LDL cholesterol--and nowadays, it is even more importa...
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How a Widow Maker Heart Attack Happens Dr. Travis Stork: Now, what I want to look at what happens when you have a heart attack of this nature. The heart needs oxygen to be and it gets that oxygen through blood, through this coronary arteries and w...
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How Virginia Overcame a Heart Attack Part 2/2 More women are dying every year from cardiovascular disease than men are at this point. That turns out to be something that a lot of people don’t know, both patients and doctors. In Virginia’s case, sh...
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How Virginia Overcame a Heart Attack Part ½ Six years ago, I had massive heart attack. I really didn’t realize how much at risked I was for heart disease because it is prevalent in black women, especially African-American women. And then I had a h...
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Why Women Have More Heart Attacks. Women have a variety of issues when it comes to having heart attacks. First of all, doctors don’t know that women have heart attacks, at least not before the age of 65. Many doctors don’t because that’s how they ...
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Raena Morgan: When it comes to reaction time, Dr. Thompson, that's critical, isn't it? Dr. Owen Thompson: Raena, it is extremely critical, because there's a matter of two things that can happen very quickly when we have a heart attack. What a hear...
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Raena Morgan: So what are some of the things that a person can do if someone is having a heart attack? Owen R Thompson: Well, if you are with someone who's having a heart attack, the first thing you need to do is take action but not panic. Try to ...
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Jennifer Matthews: The only thing Elton Cain remembers about being rushed to the hospital was the tightness in his chest. Elton Cain: They just pushed me in the emergency room there and went to work, and after that it's all history to me. Jennifer...
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Jennifer Matthews: Climbing mountains, racing classic cars, speeding across the desert. Alan Travis lives an adventurous life. This 50-year old thought he was doing everything he could to stay healthy. Alan Travis: I even make things that aren't a...
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I want everyone to look at what is one of my favorite animations. This is what happens when you have a heart attack. So if your heart's beating and everything is going A-okay, we're looking at the artery that feeds your heart with that necessary o...
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Doctor Visits since the Heart Valve Repair - Divya's Story The experience has been good for me because it all come out good and initially I think I was going every three months and then six months and then now they have told me to come back after ...
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Male 1: There is a term we used, mitral valve prolapse, what does that word mean and you need to take antibiotic prophylaxis together with a dentist. Male 2: Let me first say, and many of you are aware of this, in April of this year, the American ...
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Dr. Arthur Agatston: I’m Dr. Agatston, Preventions from the Heart Doctor. Offering we think that food to taste good must be bad for us. For learning more and more that in fact good foods are the great variety of foods can lead us to have a healthy...
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Arthur Agatston: I’m doctor Agatson, Prevention from the heart doctor. We are going to talk bout some do’s and don’ts of heart health but really of general health as well. First let’s talk about diet, you want to choose a variety of good foods, we...
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Dr. Arthur Agatston: I’m Dr. Agatston, Prevention from the Heart Doctor. We are going to talk a little bit about fats. We used to think that all fats for bad force, they need as fat, they call as heart disease we now know that not all fats are mad...
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Dr. Suzanne A. Sorof: Ladies, I have three tips for you if you would like to reduce your bad cholesterol level and increase your good cholesterol level. The number one thing is to watch what you are eating. You want to eat healthy. Choose foods th...
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Roger: Roger from Winter Park, California. Can drinking water lower your cholesterol levels? Mimi Ghosh: This is a great question, Roger. Does drinking water actually lower your cholesterol? Drinking water does a lot of important things. If you ha...
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Understanding what your cholesterol levels mean is the first step to good heart health. Determining your cholesterol level can be done with a simple blood test. The normal level of cholesterol for any individual varies depending upon their age, we...
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What Treatments are Available for Arrhythmia Rasheed: My name is Rasheed, I'm from London and I'm wondering what kind of treatments are available for arrhythmia and what are the treatment consist of, what methods of treatment are available. Dr. Ka...
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Raj: Hi! My name is Raj. I am from Millbrook, New York. My question is, if I have an Arrhythmia, does that mean I have heart disease? Paolo Angelini: Raj, if you have an Arrhythmia, or an irregular heart beat, you may need a cardiologist. It depen...
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Steve: My name is Steve; I'm from Jackson, Mississippi. Is arrhythmia hereditary condition? Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar: That's a very good question, Steve. Arrhythmias can be hereditary and in fact, it's been an area of significant medical research fo...
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Triglycerides are produced from the fat that we eat in the intestine. The fat is broken down into triglycerides and that is absorbed into the blood stream and these triglycerides go to the liver where they are processed and converted into choleste...
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Do you know what a Sphygmomanometer means? Everwell has the answer.
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During a balloon angioplasty, a heart specialist will insert a thin tube into an artery in your arm or leg and gently guide it towards the problem area in your heart, which will then be secured by a stent.
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I am not afraid of the heart, but I am of a stroke because my husband had a stroke and I took care of him for nine years, and that’s the last thing that I would hope that I would have, would be a stroke. I’d rather die immediately.
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Micheal Russoll: Hi! Everybody. Nutritionist Micheal Russoll here and I want to come in with this video and talk you a little bit about some fat loss mistakes. So, make series of videos each time talking about fat loss mistakes. So, number one fat...
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Fish oils I recommend for a couple of different reasons. One is that all hormones are made from fats, and by making sure you have these healthy Omega-3 fats from fish oil ensures that you’re going to have the healthy fats to make healthy hormones....
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A cardiac catheterization is a diagnostic procedure used when your doctor believes that blood is not flowing normally...
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Don Hamilton: My name is Don Hamilton, Cerritos, California. What kind of life threatening dangers does high cholesterol put on me? Dr. Melvyn Rubenfire: Don the cholesterol is a normal fat that circulates in the blood. We all make cholesterol. Al...
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Mike Brown: Hi! This is Mike Brown from Long Beach, California. Does sweating a lot have anything to do with high cholesterol? Melvyn Rubenfire: Mike, the relationship between sweating and cholesterol is nil. People with a high cholesterol don't n...
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What is tricuspid valve? So you know the tricuspid valve, and just to review, is the valve which is on the right side of the heart, the part of the heart that pumps the blood from the body to the lungs. It’s the inlet valve; it’s the valve that pr...
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Hi everybody! I'm Melanie Raposo and welcome to Mommy's Minute. Fetal heart rate monitoring is one of the most important parts of prenatal care. By monitoring your baby's heart beat, you and your practitioner can ensure that your baby is in good h...
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Male 1: A good doctor, when he examines the patient, the first thing he will do is observe. He will not even take a stethoscope and do not even touch the baby. If you walk in to a nursery and you see kids sitting there comfortably, could you reall...
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Male Speaker: Time now for a Health for Life minute. Female Speaker: Although breast cancer is probably the disease women fear most, the real killer of women is heart disease. Death from breast cancer is much less common than from heart disease. I...
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Dr. Holick: We know that both men and women who are vitamin D deficient have a 50% higher risk of having a heart attack, and more than 100% increased risk of dying of some type of heart failure.
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The Advantages of an Internal Defibrillator Part 2/2 In the Tesca’s case it’s most likely she’d developed a weak heart and was unaware of it, and that weakened heart situation put her at increased risk of deadly heart rhythm. Tesca was lucky to su...
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The original mechanical heart valves that were invented in the early 60s were really loud. It was not uncommon that when a doctor walked into a patient’s room who has had this, that you could actually hear the valve all the way from the door of th...
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You are watching Everwell, No More, Live Better Handling to get more heart healthy Omega-3 fats into your diet? Expert says we should eat at least two fish meals a week. But not all fish are created equal the best choices are fatty cold water fish...
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How do I pick a good omega 3 product? Sue Brennan: Well, you do want to get a quality product. Looking for a standard of manufacturing—the Good Manufacturing Product, GMP seal is often a good way to know that one is a good quality. Fish oils can v...
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How do omega 3s help rheumatoid arthritis? Sue Brennan: Well, the omega 3’s is an important component in balancing out an inflammation problem that’s going on with rheumatoid arthritis. In our diet, if we’re getting too many omega 6s—that’s pro-in...
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Speaker: What are Trans fats? Elizabeth Rahavi: Trans fats are originally developed to replace the highly saturated animal and vegetable fats that were being used in frying, baking and spreads. However, science has shown that Trans fats have a sim...
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How to Prevent High BP Cole: Hi, my name is Cole. I'm from Franklin, Indiana and my family has a history of high blood pressure. I was wondering if there is anything I could to help prevent this right now. William: Cole, you showed tremendous insi...
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What High Blood Pressure Means So high blood pressure also known as hypertension simply put is an elevated measurement of the arterial pressure in the body. Most often it’s taken in the upper arm. It’s done at almost every doctor’s visit. If you h...
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How to Avoid High Blood Pressure So preventing hypertension can be tricky. The main problem with hypertension is that it’s often asymptomatic also known as a silent killer. It is around for many, many years before it’s recognize and that can lead ...
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Dr. Susan Sharma: This is Insidermedicine in 60. From Boston - According to research in the Journal Hypertension, women who drink skimmed milk may reduce their risk of high blood pressure. In a study of nearly 30,000 women, researchers found that ...
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Male: Why is having a high blood pressure is such a big deal? Male: As many as 65 million Americans over the age of six have high blood pressure also known as hypertension. So, what are the consequences of this epidemic? Stroke, which affects the ...
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Leeanne: I am Leeanne from Boise. What are the negative side-effects of heart stents? Leslie Cho: Hi Leeanne! Well, there are definitely complications of heart stents. Some of the earlier complications of heart stents are death, heart attack, emer...
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When I got back and I opened my eyes, and I could feel and understand stuff, and they had a breathing tube in my mouth, and my hands were tied and that was very, very scary. And yes, there was a certain amount of discomfort and pain, and they were...
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Recuperation Time after Open Heart Surgery - Divya's Story Pretty soon, I would say that within a week I was feeling maybe like 90% healthy. The first initial couple of days were very, very tough because I was in the ICU and you know they put you ...
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My main fear was not with the surgery, being in the medical profession with animals. I’ve seen lot of surgeries and I was more afraid of the recovery time and the time off work the pain and the amount of time I’d missed from work, so money being a...
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One of the things about the diet that Mike was doing is first of all he put in an incredible amount of time. He is really working this most days out of the week. It’s a lot of discipline. It’s a lot of patients. It’s a lot of perseverance and if p...
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Raena Morgan: Let’s talk about cholesterol. How does diabetes affect cholesterol? Frank Murray: Yes, well type two diabetes have generally have what we call metabolic syndrome. We used to call it syndrome X. Raena Morgan: Right. Frank Murray: But ...
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Jo! Is God stupid? Really, this has been bothering me this week because I have been just battling, just battling the battle, just going up against this machine and what I mean by the machine is this corporate-driven, registered dietitian endorsed ...
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The Signs of a Heart Attack The heart is working double time. Any time you're under stress or you're exercising. That heart muscle in there this requires precious oxygen which comes to you through your corneo rotaries from your red blood cells. Yo...
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What to Do During a Heart Attack Let’s talk about what you should do if you suspect someone has had a heart attack that has lead to a cardiac arrest. And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to use this CPR dummy to demonstrate what you should d...
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How Quickly Did The Doctors At North Colorado Medical Center Treat Your Husband When He Was Having Chest Pains? Beverly: Two years ago, my husband was out shoveling snow; shouldn’t have been but he was. Came in very quietly, sat in his chair and I...
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What to Do If You Have a Heart Attack It’s actually if you suspect you’re having a Heart Attack the first thing you want to do is sit or lie down because you want to relax as much as possible and just to remind everyone what happens when you have ...
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How to Identify a Heart Attack The symptoms of a heart attack can be multiple and varied. The most common symptom is severe crushing chest pain which may spread down to the arm or into the neck, oftentimes associated with nausea, vomiting and swea...
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Learn about Heart Attacks Heart attack or myocardial infarction is caused due to coronary artery blockage. Coronary arteries are the blood vessels which supply the heart with oxygen and nutrition. Overtime the inside of these arteries developed fi...
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Jennifer Matthews: Jim Hultman loves spending time with his dog, Bud. Jim Hultman: Having a dog is just a wonderful experience. He is the best. Jennifer Matthews: He's lucky to have enough energy to keep up with Bud. Five years ago, Jim had a hear...
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Chuck: Hi! I am Chuck, 36, from Detroit, and I'd like to know what are the signs if someone is having a heart attack? Christine Lawless: Thanks for asking that question, Chuck. There is a lot of misconceptions about signs and symptoms of a heart a...
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Coronary bypass surgery attempts to correct this serious problem. In order to restore normal blood flow. Are there Alternatives to this surgery? find out with PreOP.
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Dr. Moore recalls the risk factors that increase an individual's likelihood of getting heart failure and shares preventive tests and lifestyle changes. Dr. Moore is a physician at MassGeneral Hospital.
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I switched from a regular primary care provider to an internal medicine specialist because I’m diabetic and he wanted baseline, lab work and studies on all of my functions and so he didn’t eco of my heart and found it.
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Adrian After His Heart Surgery Dr. Travis Stork: It was pretty heart warming when Adrian and his Dad Steven came to visit us just weeks after this incredible surgery. Let’s bring Adrian out and see how he’s doing. Hey buddy! Hey there, how are you...
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The studies show that women’s arteries are smaller than men’s so maybe the reason that they do not do as well after an angioplasty and heart procedure is because that maybe the instruments that we have at this time are not perfect for them, but at...
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What is Robotic Cardiac Surgery? It’s a method by which we can make these small incisions and allow that surgery done through those small incisions, but the robot itself is completely controlled by the surgeon. It mimics our hand motion so that th...
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How to Prepare a Woman for Robotic Heart Surgery If a woman has a cardiac condition and requires, let’s again use the example of valve surgery, mitral valve prolapse, which has resulted in regurgitation severe enough that it needs to be corrected....
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EmpowHer Asks: What did you think when you first saw your open heart surgery scar? Divya sharesher health story Heart Not scary for the simple reason I had c-secs earlier. I have had cesareans which reforming in some way. And the relief of being f...
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How Did You Tell Your Kids You Need Heart Surgery Surprisingly its very easy to explain to your kids. My husband was the one who was the tough cookie because he often notice mature and I guess its much difficult for you when its your spouse whose ...
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Host: Heart disease is a serious health concern for both men and women. However, women have historically neglected their heart health. At the Sister to Sister Foundations, Executive Women's Breakfast, respected Washington D.C. newscaster, women's ...
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Jennifer Matthews: Richard Chartoff was diagnosed with heart disease one year ago. Richard Chartoff: I was feeling indigestion. Jennifer Matthews: It was actually chest pain called angina, and recovery was not easy. Richard Chartoff: The worst par...
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Sherri Dmyterko: Heart health is top of mind for a lot of Canadians. Recent studies found that 56% of Canadians are extremely concerned about their heart health and 39% are specifically concerned about high blood cholesterol. Certain foods can hel...
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Lp(a) PA is LDL plus another protein, called apoprotein. Now, we understand a little bit more about cholesterol in the vitamin C collagen cholesterol connection. We should maybe take a step back now and understand a little bit more about collagen....
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Trying to lower your cholesterol levels? Here are a few tips on doing it the natural way. Studies have shown that fish oil which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids helps protect the linings of the arteries. Get the maximum benefits of fish by enjoying...
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Q: What causes high blood pressure? Female: High cholesterol, smoking, inactivity—consistent inactivity over a period of time, just your normal genetic traits that you really can’t do anything about. Excessive alcohol intake, high fatty diet with ...
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The Cardiology Team at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center I think what makes the cardiology team at Banner Thunderbird so special is essentially the breadth of experience, the background and training of the extremely qualified individuals who are h...
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Dr. Christopher Cannon talks about various tests that are available to predict the probability of having a heart attack, most related to blood tests or blood pressure. The Framingham Risk Score and C-reactive protein are two examples.
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Well, first of all, you need to know whether the doctor is board certified in cardiology or board certified in internal medicine or primary care. And if they are, when was the last time they took their test, because if they are grandfathered in an...
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What made Dr. Brian deGuzman a great heart doctor? Divya: He is an extremely good human being. When somebody deals with these conditions every day, you meet so many patients, the kind of individual attention he gives to you, you generally wouldn’t...
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Getting to Hospital during the Heart Attack - Kathy's Story We called the ambulance in and went into the ambulance and I understand that that is the best way to do it. You do get there quicker, you get care immediately and they rush you right into...
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Cardiovascular activity is so important to help women lose weight and the reason being is you are not just exercising your heart, which is, of course, very important, you are also exercising in terms of burning those calories and burning that fat....
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Are there cardiovascular benefits of Vitamin C? Sue Brennan: I want to discuss the cardiovascular benefits of an adequate supply of vitamin C. We’re trying to look at how to prevent hardening of the arteries, which is where the cholesterol is comi...
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Host: How long can a victim of cardiac arrest wait for treatment? Robert O'Connor: They don't have that much time. They have maximum 4-6 minutes. Without treatment the person will not survive in that time period. Most of the time EMS is at least f...
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During a balloon angioplasty, a heart specialist will insert a thin tube into an artery in your arm or leg and gently guide.
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Interviewer: Dr. Corte a very common thing comes up in normal pediatric practice, I don’t if the doctor hears a murmur. It seems a little vibrato ring it calls the parents. It probably isn’t something serious and in which the term innocent but to ...
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Carlos: Hi, my name is Carlos I'm from Brazil. I was wondering to know what the symptoms of high cholesterol are. Dr. Leslie Cho: Hi Carlos. Unfortunately there are no symptoms of high cholesterol and often the first sign of high cholesterol is he...
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Will taking omega3s help my cholesterol level? Sue Brennan: The triglyceride component of the cholesterol panel is where you see the most activity. The omega 3s can actually help reduce the triglyceride level by 20 to 40 percent when they’re given...
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How an Electrophysiologist Knows Where the Abnormal Heart Rhythm Originates So this is very interesting because that is actually the core of what electro physiology is about. I think the understanding for electro physiology has gained such a wide ...
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Tom: Hi! My name is Tom from Millbrook, New York, and I'd like to ask the question, can caffeine and alcohol affect my Arrhythmia? Paolo Angelini: Tom, as both caffeine and alcohol can affect different Arrhythmias in different levels, but surely b...
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George: My name is George from Yonkers, New York, and I want to know what the different types of arrhythmia are and is it life-threatening? Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar: That's a good question, George. Arrhythmias can originate from either the upper or ...
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Anthony: Hi! My name is Anthony. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. My question is can people with arrhythmia still exercise? Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar: That's a good question Anthony and this periodically comes up. The types of arrhythmias and the ability t...
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Terry: This is Terry from Jackson, Mississippi. Can arrhythmia be treated through diet and exercise? Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar: That's a great question, Terry. Abnormal heart rhythms are typically treated using medications and in some instances we th...
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Well, it’s just that my heart would beat faster and it was going up to like 126. If it was 80, I was already put at—and I don’t think it would go higher than 126 because I had a pacemaker in. I think that’s maybe the maximum—but it would really ju...
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The Long Term Effects of High Blood Pressure Steve: I'm Steve from Nashville, Tennessee I’d like to learn more about the long term effects of blood pressure. Dr. William Cohn: That’s an important topic Steve. High blood pressure can injure just ab...
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How Can High Blood Pressure Be Identified So the symptoms of high blood pressure are tricky. In general the disease is asymptomatic means there are no symptoms for many, many years. When symptoms do occur it’s usually because of damage that has ar...
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Dr. Mona Khanna: The consequences of having high blood pressure are many, high blood pressure can affect almost ever organ in the body, but the one that is most commonly affect and have the most severe consequences are going to be your eyes, you c...
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This is Insidermedicine In 60. From Mississippi. Despite evidence of the importance of dietary modification for the management of high blood pressure, patients with the condition are not complying. Over a decade ago, research showed that a diet hi...
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How to Do Infant CPR Dr. Travis Stork: You mentioned CPR, but you’re going to walk us through that. The reason that it’s so important for all parents -- to either be CPR-trained or be scheduled to go to one is minutes count, within four minutes, t...
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Interviewer: I scream when I hear the word fat but the truth is not all fats are bad I’m here to learn the difference so let’s go behind the burner and meet the nutritionist. So I’m here with nutritionist Martha, Martha give me the scope on all th...
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Ryan: -- Mathew Sorrentino: Ryan, fish in the diet is one of the things we recommend as a very good nutritional Mediterranean-type diet. Fish in the diet can lower some of the bad cholesterol particles in your blood stream such as high triglycerid...
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Max stole millions of hearts playing Darth Vader in one of the 2011 Superbowl's most memorable commercials. But most people don't know that Max was born with a congenital heart disorder.
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Greg: Greg Mill, Cerritos, California. I thought high cholesterol was for overweight people. Why do underweight people have high cholesterol problems as well? Dr. Melvyn Rubenfire: Actually Greg the elevated cholesterol doesn’t really tie end to o...
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Cholesterol is a soft, fat-like, waxy substance found in the blood stream and in all your body cells. The cholesterol in a person’s body originates from two major sources—dietary intake and production in the liver. When fatty foods are ingested th...
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Nathan: Hi! I am Nathan from Sioux City, Iowa, and I know how to stay way from beef products to help lower my cholesterol, what about pork products? Mimi Ghosh: That's a great question, Nathan. Beef and pork are both animal products. Any foods tha...
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If you have been just diagnosed with high cholesterol, it may help to understand how the different types of medication available work. The most commonly prescribed and most effective LDL lowering medications are in the class of drugs called Statin...
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If you suffer from problems with your cholesterol levels, your doctor may recommend medication. When prescribing a medication to regulate your cholesterol levels, your doctor will consider your medical history, age, lifestyle, and most importantly...
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Healthy Heart vs. Diseased Heart Dr. Travis Stork: One of the most important points that we’re talking right now is prevention. Because whether you’re a male or female you want to prevent heart disease. And Barbara I’m showing everyone a normal si...
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Casey Taylor: It is the vital sign of American life, but what do the latest stats reveal about you. Female Speaker: Yes, a lot about the white people in American. Female Speaker: I think I am a lot more health conscious than I was a few years. Cas...
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Male Speaker: Time now for a Health for Life minute. Female Speaker: Did you know heart attacks most commonly occur during the early morning hours of 6:00 am and noon. It turns out the heart's electrical activity like other bodily functions works ...
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Ladies, I’d like to give you three tips for lifestyle modifications to help reduce your risk for heart disease. Number one, if you are a smoker, stop smoking. Number two, control all of your medical comorbidities. Take care of your high blood pres...
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How Dr. Kesten Became Interested in Weight and Heart Disease The real question is, you know, when I am speaking with teenage cousins of mine and they are telling me about their boyfriends, I listen and I am very polite and I am kind of in coaching...
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How Much Fat You Should Consume to Reduce Heart Disease In the general literature, recommendations by public health professionals, the recommendation for prevention is to consume about 20% calories from fat and that means taking in two to four, if...
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Question: What is the relationship between heart attack or stroke and diabetes? Dr. Thaddeus Bell: One of the things that we are founding out is that in the literature is also documented that patients don't have a good understanding of what we ref...
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How a Heart Attack Occurs What is a heart attack? Well maybe you have chest pain. Why you're having chest pain is one reason, your heart isn’t getting the oxygen it needs. After a lifetime of smoking eating the wrong foods, cholesterol builds up i...
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How a High School Heart Attack Victim Was Saved Male: So Lisa’s chest compressions are what saved Hayward’s life so we actually have Hayward in this family join us from the children’s hospital in Portland, Oregon. Hayward can you hear us? Lisa: Hi...
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How Heart Attack Patients Can Be Treated Prognosis of a heart attack really depends on how much damage there is to heart muscle and how much potential further damage there maybe to the heart muscle. If there damage myocardium, we’re going to treat...
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The classic sign of a heart attack is thought to be "There’s an elephant on my chest, the pain goes to my neck and down my left arm and there’s no question that something terrible is happening to me." In fact, fully a fifth of all women experienci...
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Jennifer Matthews: It takes a lot to keep David Carroll away from his favorite past time. But, a silent heart attack and a triple by-pass surgery did exactly that. David Carroll: I just was so afraid. I didn't do very much. Jennifer Matthews: Then...
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Dr. Yi Ning Strube: This is insidermedicine in 60. From Texas, waist to hip ratio may be more important than body mass index or BMI in predicting who will develop a heart attack. A study of over 2500 patients shows that those with high waist to hi...
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Gretchen: Hi! I am Gretchen from Oregon. How long does it take to recover from a heart attack? Joseph Kannam: Gretchen, that depends on how big the heart attack is. If you have a relatively small heart attack, these days we are treating many heart...
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You know you chest hurts, is it heartburn or something more serious. Sometimes chest pain is not heartburn but a heart attack. Although heart attack symptoms very widely in form of severity certain signs can help to signal a medical emergency. Pai...
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Trying to raise your good cholesterol levels one surprising way is to eat fat. Just make sure it's the right kind. Foods rich in saturated fats like canola oil, olive oil and nuts can improve good HDL levels. With out increasing the level of bad c...
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Learn about Coronary Bypass Surgery Coronary arteries, the vessels that bring blood to the heart muscle can become clogged due to fatty build up called plague.
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Lois explains if she regrets waiting to undergo heart surgery and shares if the heart valve replacement procedure was as scary as she had anticipated.
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Dr.Saul Weinreb talks about gestational hypertension, which manifests during pregnancy.
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What makes dopamine such a powerful chemical? Nora Volkow: Dopamine is a chemical substance that serves to send messages between two cells in the brain and that's what we call neurotransmitters. There are many neurotransmitters and dopamine plays ...
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 1 of 8.
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 2 of 8.
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 3 of 8.
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 4 of 8.
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 5 of 8.
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 6 of 8.
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 8 of 8.
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In this video you will learn about the different exercises that can help you keep a healthy heart, part 7 of 8.
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In this video, two women discuss their experience with cardiac rehabilitation. They have both had to make major adjustments in their lives. One says that her biggest change had to do with stress. She never stopped to take a rest, but now she knows...
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The electrocardiogram is just a simple test where they will, the medical assistant will ask the lady to loosen up her shirt, they will put a number of stickers across the chest hooked up to wires, and the patient just lays still for just a few sec...
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Male Speaker: With each heart beat there are two phases in the passage of oxygenated blood and di-oxygenated blood through the heart. And the phase of relaxation diastole the heart fills with blood as the ventricles relax the valves in the aorta a...
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Male: Immunologic defense system is very small children in some ways regulated to an organ inside the body called the thymus and the thymus is an organ which is located very close to the heart in fact it is right on top of the heart and some of th...
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What’s an adequate dose of omega 3s? Sue Brennan: Well, that can vary, but a general range based on the American Heart Association is 2 to 4 grams a day when you’re looking at prevention for cardiovascular conditions. For the rheumatoid arthritis,...
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Can I take omega-3s if I’m allergic to fish or nuts? Sue Brennan: On the omega-3 products, if a person is allergic to fish, it’s probably best to avoid. People that have fish allergies can often get severe reactions and I wouldn’t take it unless y...
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Can I take omega 3s if I’m on blood thinning medications? Sue Brennan: For people that are on anticoagulants like coumadin, warfarin or heparin, these are going to thin your blood and you have it already set up for a higher risk of potential bleed...
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How do omega 3s affect blood pressure? Sue Brennan: There have been some studies that have shown that addition of omega 3s to the diet can decrease the blood pressure by 2 to 5 milligrams of mercury, which doesn’t seem like a lot but it can help t...
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What are the effects of omega 3s on lipid levels? Sue Brennan: What we’re seeing primarily is a decrease in the triglyceride component. If a person is on a good dose, which is usually 2 to 3 grams a day, you can see a 20 to 40 percent drop in the ...
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How do omega 3s benefit mental health? Sue Brennan: That’s an interesting question. A lot of us have been trying to stay away from fats in our diet, and what we have come to realize is you need a certain portion of fat to come from the diet to hav...
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Why should pregnant women take omega 3s? Sue Brennan: For the mother, it’s very important in her developing child to have an adequate level of omega 3s. There are a couple reasons for this. The neuronal development of the infant is very critical i...
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Dr. Kahlon shares the most common symptoms a woman will experience when she is having a heart attack.
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Heart disease is the number one killer of American men and women, and symptoms don't stop at dizziness, chest pain and trouble breathing. People will experience a wide array of symptoms, particularly women.
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Female Speaker: Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the world. One out of three women will die from the disease. Once believed to be just a man's illness, heart disease and heart attacks maybe more severe in women than men. But in b...
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Dr. David Sanderson: Probably not directly, but because smoking is such an important factor in development cardio vascular disease, as well as lung disease particularly COPD, they often coexist. I frequently make the -- somewhat but not untrue obs...
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Lois explains which heart surgeries she underwent at Banner Desert Medical Center and discusses her recovery.
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Thankfully, they repaired it. It was in a fairly degenerated state because of the pressure on the heart, because of the congenital heart condition, but Dr. deGuzman repaired it. And I am grateful for that.
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Was the Heart Valve Repaired or Replaced - Divya's Story Thankfully they repaired it, it was in a fairly degenerated state because of the pressure on the heart because of the congenital heart condition. But doctor De Guzman repaired it and I’m gra...
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When a Woman Should See a Doctor About Chest Pain Chest pain can arise from multiple different etiologies. There are many causes for chest pain and it’s very important to consider that chest pain could be coming from the heart. Again, there are ce...
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Female: You know your chest hurts but you do not know the cause. Is it heartburn or something more serious? Male: Heartburn is an unpleasant condition that troubles almost everyone from time to time. But sometimes, symptoms that feel like heartbur...
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How Her Family Helped After Heart Surgery - Divya's Story My mother had come down from India to help me with the kids. Especially the kids because they are young and they need a lot of attention at home, my husband had taken some time off and I ha...
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Advice for a Woman Preparing for Heart Surgery I would say just be strong for your family. You know they are deriving their confidence from you and if you were just to follow part and you know manifest all your nervousness you’d just ruining it fo...
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Returning to Work After Heart Surgery - Divya's Story Well I was back to work within a couple of weeks because I work from home and I don’t have a base trainers job which is mostly computer and phone related. I was—I just rest for a couple of week...
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There are many treatment options for high cholesterol. We always start with improving diet and exercise which is some patients is all that’s needed. However if cholesterol problems persist, we recommend a number of different drugs. The most popula...
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Brian: My name is Brian from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. I have a question. Is Arrhythmia a condition that can be cured or only treated? Ronald Berger: Well Brian, Arrhythmia is a very broad subject area and includes many different types depending...
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Dr. Kahlon describes the heart tests and procedures that are performed in the catheterization laboratory.
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Dr. Kahlon introduces himself and shares why he would recommend Banner Heart Hospital to women experiencing heart problems. Dr. Kahlon cares for patients at Banner Heart Hospital in Mesa, Arizona
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What is Diastolic Heart Failure and its causes? Dr. Amy Epps: There's another form of heart failure that's a stiffening of the heart muscle, that's usually the most common form of heart failure, and that's called diastolic heart failure, and it is...
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Susan Silberstein and Marilyn Joyce talk about fats and fatty acids.
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Dr. Kahlon shares when a patient can replace statin therapy, a medication taken for high cholesterol, with red rice yeast.
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Tom Audette: We’re talking with Max Motyka of Albion Labs. Max, what about potassium, is that a mineral that we need? What can you tell us about potassium? Max Motyka: Well, potassium, of course, is very, very important. It’s needed in high quanti...
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Lori shares how she functioned at home after open-heart surgery.
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That helps stabilize the membranes, stabilize the plaques so that you’re less risk for having a recurrence of a heart attacks. So cheap for women because women with cardiovascular disease more of us died than men from our first heart attack meanin...
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Dr. Christopher Cannon explains what a heart murmur is, and how to identify when you have one. You need to monitor a heart murmur if you have one, and if a valve gets too blocked up, you might need heart surgery.
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What is the difference between a heart palpitation and heart murmur? ICYOU.com's Valerie Scott, M.D. answers.
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Interviewer: Dr. Court, a very common thing comes up in normal pediatric practice. I do not know where the doctor hears a murmur. It seems a little vibratory and it tells the parent. It probably is not something serious and he as to use the term i...
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I think women absolutely need to be evaluated by physicians that are used to, and attuned to women’s heart health issues. Up until fairly recently, many people felt that heart disease was the same as in men as women. I think recently, a lot of att...
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If the patient is sent to me because they have risk factors and we go through them and we come up with whether they do have heart disease or not. If they do have heart disease,I want to see him on a regular basis may be every three to six months d...
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In this video, nutritionist Janet Brill shares tips on how to lower cholesterol with diet and exercise.
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Question: What could cause pressure & pain in one’s chest when breathing? Family Practice Physician Emily Haly explains.
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Adverse Reaction After Catheter Ablations So in general, these are very well tolerated procedures. These are fairly compatible with anything that we put inside the body, and these are only short lived. Very, very rarely would anybody have an aller...
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Dr. Lisa reveals the risks of obesity and chronic hypertension to a mother and her baby during pregnancy.
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Cynthia Sass: Whether you have heart disease or you're trying to prevent heart disease and let's face it who's not in one of those two groups? It's not about lowering your fat. It's about eating the right kind of fat and one of the best fats on th...
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Why Heart Disease is a Woman's Number One Cause of Death Well, heart disease is prevalent because the risk factors of heart disease are so prevalent. High blood pressure, it’s one of the most common diseases that we know because there’s so much sa...
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The Connection between Sleep and Heart Disease There have been, in some of the latest studies, there seems to be an indication that lack of sleep can cause physiological changes in your body, which of course can then affect all parts of your body ...
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It’s one of the many tools that we have to prevent heart disease. For instance, exercise lowers risk for heart disease and it’s something as simple as taking a walk at about a pace of three and a half miles per hour, which really you don’t have to...
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Stefani: Hi! My name is Stefani from Boise, Idaho. How much of a factor is gender in rates of heart disease? Charles Campbell: Stefani, it appears that women derive some protection from heart disease early on in life, particularly while they are m...
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How Can High Blood Pressure Be Treated So the treatments for high blood pressure are multifactorial. The most important one is lifestyle modification; you have to live healthy that involves regular cardiovascular exercise, eating right, decreasing...
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The Prognosis for High Blood Pressure Patients So high blood pressure can have varied effects on the body and the prognosis is varied. If it’s found and treated early people can live a long healthy life without many effects. If found later, the pr...
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Unfortunately, when you have a 15 or 20 minutes office visit and today you’ve got a backache, today you’ve trouble sleeping, today your migraine is acting out, you bring with you to the doctor, here’s the list of what’s bothering me. What you shou...
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It's so common in people with insulin resistance or diabetes to have high blood pressure and many people, most people in the United States are inadequately treated, and it's been shown time and time again that treating blood pressure aggressively ...
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Marlene: Hi! My name is Marlene and I'm from Alhambra, California. My question is it true that an excessive levels of drinking is related to high blood pressure? Trey Causey: Marlene you're quite right in that excessive alcohol consumption is asso...
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Sheinina West: Welcome to Mom Lounge T.V. I am your host Sheinina West. Today as my guest, I have Richard Pass. He is a registered nurse and a health educator. He has been practicing basic and advance CPR for almost 20 years. When Richard decided ...
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Sheinina West: Welcome to Mom Lounge T.V. I am your host Sheinina West. Today as my guest, I have Richard Pass. He is a registered nurse and a health educator. He has been practicing basic and advanced CPR for almost 20 years. When Richard decided...
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Melanie Raposo: Hi! Everybody I'm Melanie Raposo, welcome to the pregnancy show. Today I'm joining by Maureen, president of City CPR, who demonstrates for us an infants CPR techniques they could potentially save your babies life. Okay Maureen, so ...
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The Causes of Supraventricular Tachycardia So the cause of supraventricular tachycardia, there are several different abnormal circuits or irritable spots that we have names for, irregular spots that are often called ectopic atrial tachycardia or a...
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Treatments for Supraventricular Tachycardia So for the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia, essentially we are talking about abnormal rhythm arising in the atrium. So the first line of therapy, often is medication, and that may be changing b...
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Intervieweer: There is a famous desperate that takes the cell thicks to see a healthy kid and some went a chest x-ray and collapse and sort of a very large heart and there is nothing to worried about, this thing called myocarditis. What is a myoca...
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Dr. John Fox explains the difference between heart pain and non heart related chest Pain.
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Why do some omega 3 products contain vitamin E? Sue Brennan: Yes, that’s a good question. The vitamin E is used as a stabilizing agent in the fish oil products and also as an antioxidant. So, it will be important for people to look at the label, s...
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How Unhealthy Cholesterol Is Treated Here at McKee Medical Center we have the ability to do regular routine cholesterol profile, which is the basic numbers that most folks are aware of and are interested in, such as the total cholesterol, triglyce...
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Joe: Hi! My name is Joe and I'm from Bangor, Maine. I want to know, can you obtain high cholesterol from blood transfusion? Dr. Stacy Higgins: Joe that’s a really interesting question. So when someone donates blood, the blood when it gets to the b...
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Laura: Hi, I'm Laura from Tipp City, Ohio. I'm 50 years old and I was wondering, are there any foods that I should avoid when taking cholesterol medicine? Dr. Javed Butler: Laura this is a really important question from several different perspecti...
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Dr. Marc Savant: Hi! I’m Dr. Marc Savant and welcome to Savant MD. Today’s wellness tip is about Cholesterol. We hear a lot about lowering cholesterol, but what actually is Cholesterol? Cholesterol is a necessary substance in our body. It serves a...
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Did you know you can lower your risk for a heart attack and stroke by eating more leafy green vegetables? Leafy green vegetables contain folic acid and according to the National Institute of Health increased folic acid appears to lower the amount ...
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How to Lower Cholesterol with Pistachios Here’s a quick trick to lower cholesterol. Sprinkle pistachios on your salad. Researchers at Penn State University gave volunteers a pleasant task. Eat one and a half ounces or about a can full of pistachio...
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Joye: Hi! I am Joye, and this is Allie, and my cholesterol always tends to run a little high and my friends and family tell me it's my love of dairy that keeps it up there. But if that's the case what kind of dairy can I eat? Mimi Ghosh: Thank you...
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Host: What about cholesterol? Kathy Reily: People with diabetes have an increased risk for having heart attack and stroke. Men with diabetes have about double the risk of having a heart attack or a stroke than a man without diabetes and women with...
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For Insidermedicine in 60 I am Essie Heinrich. From Sweden researchers have identified 37 genes in mice that lower cholesterol and reduce the chance of plaque formation which is a risk factor for the development of heart disease and stroke. While ...
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Speaker: Body makes it. There are probably some purpose for all this things. What is the purpose of cholesterol in the first place? Marc S.Jacobson: Cholesterol helps the cell membranes structure and function, so it's important to have it in every...
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Speaker: What is cholesterol? Marc S.Jacobson: Cholesterol is a kind of fat that's made by every cell in our body and without that substance our cells wouldn't work, but when we have too much of it, it can make us sick, and cause things heart dise...
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Cholesterol – you hear the word all the time but what does it really mean? Because it often has negative connotations, it may surprise you to learn that cholesterol is not inherently bad. In fact, this naturally occurring substance plays a critica...
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Whether you are on the 18% of Americans with high cholesterol or not, you can benefit from living a low cholesterol lifestyle. While physical activity is not known to impact bad LDL cholesterol it does increase the level of HDL or good cholesterol...
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How Heart Attacks Can Be Hereditary Zakk: I'm Zakk from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and I was wondering if my father has a heart attack, am I at a greater risk of having one? Dr. James Wilson: Zakk it’s true that if your father had a heart attack you...
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The Likelihood of a Heart Attack from Overexercising Lisa: Hey I’m Lisa from Oregon, is it really possible to over-exercise and increase your chance for heart attack? Male: Lisa, exercise can induce a heart attack at the time of exercise but the r...
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New Methods to Treat Heart Attack Patients Treatment options for heart attack have progressed dramatically over the years. Today primary angioplasty where someone is having a heart attack, they get to emergency room and they meet the diagnostic cr...
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Why Heart Attacks in Young Women are Increasing We are seeing an increase in heart attacks probably for many different reasons. One is that there are more obese women; that’s an increased risk factor for heart disease. The obesity in women is caus...
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Symptoms are different so women may not recognize them and get to the hospital later. When they have their heart attacks, women are more likely to die of their first heart attacks compared to men. Women are less likely to undergo coronary angiogra...
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Well, as the literature puts it, the reasons for women being treated less aggressively than men with a heart attack, remain obscure. The Israeli and the British and the American literature, all have that phrase: "The reasons for this remain obscur...
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How the Heart Attack Felt - Kathy's Story My name is Kathy Bogschack, I am a cardiac patient in 2003 I had a triple bypass after having sprained study heart attack and I’ve had since then stints put in my legs as well for blockage in both left and...
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Scared of Reoccurring Heart Attacks - Kathy's Story Always, always and I lost weight since my heart attack. I've been working on that, that’s supposed to help. Eating better helps, doing all the things you know you’re supposed to do so you don’t h...
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Rachel: Hi! I am Rachel from Austin, Texas. Can a heart attack feel like indigestion? Joon Lee: Rachel, that's an excellent question about what a heart attack feels like, unfortunately yes, it can exactly mimic indigestion. The difficult fact is t...
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What tests are used to tell if I have a heart problem? Dr. Amy Epps: The first and least invasive test is an (EKG) or Electrocardiogram. It's a - the electrodes are placed on your chest, and you can actually look at the conduction system of your h...
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500,000 people in the U.S. will undergo coronary artery bypass surgery. It's a dangerous procedure, but now, doctors are saving the hearts of those most at risk.
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Dr. Saul Weireb explains the dangers of pre-pregnancy hypertension and high blood pressure.
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Dr. Christopher Cannon discusses getting a stress test if you have chest discomfort when you exercise for a certain amount. Chest pains during exercise are normally due to a blockage in the heart artery, which limits blood supply.
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Female: That cough sure is persistent. Is it just a nasty cold or something to be more concerned about? Male: A chronic cough is the fifth most common reason people head to the doctor. But the real underlying problem can sometimes be surprising. I...
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In September, Amy, 38, suffered sudden cardiac arrest while at work. She didn't show any warning signs beforehand, and despite a quick response by paramedics, Amy went approximately 20 minutes without a heartbeat.
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Advice for Women Scared to Have Heart Surgery Do it now, it is a safe procedure, it is a major surgery but you will come out much healthier than what you’ve been living with. And before your condition deteriorates while you look at me, I am back t...
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Dr. Tak Kwan explains how to prevent coronary artery disease for people who have coronary artery disease in the family.
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Susan Silberstein and Marilyn Joyce talk about fats and fatty acids.
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In this edition of You've Got, The Doctors' Dr. Travis Stork explains what the symptoms of a heart attack may be in men and women and the urgency of treating a heart attack as soon as possible.
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Here is vital information every woman should know about the surprisingly wide range of symptoms that may indicate a woman is having a heart attack. Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, who specializes in women's heart disease, explains.
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Unfortunately, there are no symptoms of high cholesterol and usually the only time the person knows that they have high cholesterol is once they’ve already had a heart attack or stroke. Thus, it’s important to have your blood check regularly espec...
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Do you know what Ischemia means? Everwell has the answer.
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Have you ever wanted to get good at self check, blood pressure. Well look no further than this tutorial on How To Check Your Own Blood Pressure. Follow Videojug's industry leaders as they guide you through this tutorial.
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Well, there’s a device called a blood pressure cuff, which is available all over the world, and your local supermarket, drugstore, and in many people’s homes, and that is used to measure the blood pressure.
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Learn about Pain Killers and Potassium Narrator: There is nothing quite so debilitating as chronic pain. Perhaps you suffer from an old back injury or recurrent migraines. Whatever it is, sometimes the only available option seems to be to reach fo...
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Dr. Shalizeh Shookoh: The good cholesterol is the HDL. The bad cholesterol is the LDL. The good cholesterol is the one that cleans the blood and takes away the cholesterol in the body so that it keeps it in controlled. The bad cholesterol is the o...
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Host: Why are trans fats bad for your health? Tracee Yablon-Brenner: Because they lower your good productive HDL cholesterol and increase your LDL cholesterol. They also disturb cellular function, can have an effect with cardiovascular disease, di...
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Why is it important to weigh yourself daily when you have congestive heart failure? ICYOU.com's Valerie Scott, M.D. answers.
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Divya shares how quickly she recovered from open-heart surgery to repair her heart valve.
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Kim shares which scholarship was developed in her daughter's name after she passed away from a mitral valve prolapse.
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Dr. Starling shares why he feels Banner Heart Hospital is an exceptional facility for patient care.
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Dr. DelGiorno describes why he believes the Banner Heart Hospital Women's Heart Center provides exceptional patient care.
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A cardiac catheterization is a diagnostic procedure used when your doctor believes that blood is not flowing normally.
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In 2007, in the “Circulation” journal, was published the new updated evidence-based guidelines for women for risk factor modification for heart disease, and there’s a new classification system for risk: high risk, at risk, or optimal risk, and let...
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Well, it has been the leading cause of death since 1908 except in 1918 when influenza was number one killer of men and women in this country. And part of is that it is a disease that over the years of risk factors had been cause to it to stay as t...
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Supplements are to supplement a good diet. They shouldn’t be considered to fill in all the holes with a for poor diet. So, yes they can be part of the program but by themselves probably do not reverse heart disease. However, if one needs, I do thi...
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Women can prevent heart disease by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. For example, making changes in diet, exercise, stress management and social support. A diet that consists primarily of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans and ...
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Well in the past, heart disease was largely thought to be a man’s disease, probably because men, in general, start to have heart disease earlier than women do, although that is changing and being more recognized that certain women are in a higher ...
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Yes, you can get enough fats, vitamins, and minerals with the reversal diet with the exception of vitamin E, which is very hard to get, except in foods such as especially nuts and seeds, which is much too high in fat if you already have diagnosis ...
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What a Heart Disease Reversal Diet is Whenever I’ve talked about new year’s resolutions, I think that it’s good for people to make them. You know the normal ones are lose weight and maybe do more introspective or spiritual things, or perhaps exerc...
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EmpowHer asks: Why should women be more concerned about her heart disease than breast disease? Christopher B. Heward: The reason that women should be more concerned about heart disease than breast cancer is because more women die of heart disease ...
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That's a great question. There is a growing evidence that women with heart disease or women who have a heart attack have a much greater propensity or will develop more depression and anxiety from that than women who do not have a heart attack, and...
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Heart disease, if you talk about coronary artery disease which is the blocked arteries and the cause of the heart attacks most women have in our country, it's caused by having risk factors. There are risk factors that cause the heart disease like ...
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Scott: Hi! My name is Scott, I am from Washington DC, and I was wondering what are some signs of heart disease in young people? Charles Campbell: Hi Scott! There really aren't a lot of very specific signs of heart disease among young people. I thi...
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Marti: Hey, this is Marti from Austin, Texas. I heard Beta Carotene protects who get heart disease, is that true? Joon Lee: Beta Carotene which is an antioxidant has been purported to protect against heart disease and cancer. This comes from the f...
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So what's your mouth got to do with your heart? Well may be a lot according to study is showing people with gum disease already increased risk of heart disease, why one theory is that bacteria and infected gums travel than the blood stream, causin...
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Dr. Christopher Cannon explains that various medications for heart disease such as statins and aspirins are continued lifelong, though there are some like anti-clotting medicines that are given for a year.
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Female: Strokes or brain attacks are scary but often preventable; knowing your risk factors can help you take steps to ensure that a stroke does not happen to you. Male: In America one out of every 16 deaths is caused by stroke. And 80% of those c...
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Female: Strokes are the third biggest killers in the United States today, learning the warning signs of a stroke is crucial and could just save a life. Male: If stroke occurs when there is an interruption of blood flow to the brain this cause the ...
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Interviewer: In the hospital for whatever the reason he examines the kid and turned to be a month later and now he hears a murmur. He is here in the hospital this other month later. Did the doctor miss something or could this be the way things hap...
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Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm is the most common abnormal heart rhythm or arrhythmia. It’s a very chaotic type of rhythm in the atrium that keeps it from beating and contracting like it normally would and disrupts the ability of ...
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Atrial fibrillation actually has a multitude of risk factors that make people prone to getting it, and actually being a female is one of those. Being a female does increase your risk rate of atrial fibrillation, as well as advancing age and a numb...
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Kim describes her daughter's mitral valve symptoms and tries to explains why she dismissed them.
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Well, mostly just fatigue and I wasn’t able to walk like I like to walk. I mean, I could maybe walk around the block a little bit and that's it. It’s concerning when you’re a very active person and I am a very active person, trying to work at things.
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Has your heart ever skipped a beat? Find out when it's normal and when you need to seek medical attention.
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E.R. physician Dr. Travis Stork shows the anatomy of a beating heart and tells you what you may be eating to cause it to speed up.
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Dr. Kaplan describes why patients will benefit from seeing a cardiologist at Banner Heart Hospital Heart Rhythm Center.
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Interviewer: What would be the work up? Doctor: So, this is what one does. First of all one does a routine of electrocardiogram which as you know if the child is having a tachycardia maybe completely normal. However, and I will show a couple of EK...
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Interviewer: The reason I keep like that could takes a paper ADD they could be problem with low back… Doctor: That is a very interesting question that at. I do not think when you have to realize this is not a common problem. I recently have patien...
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Interviewer: Sometimes pediatrician is referring you a patient because they complains the hot is constantly raising and they have a little bit of discomfort and you see them and you do your test. Why would you see them and what would you do to mak...
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Interviewer: Big samples of the show at with a copy and looks like you are normal or abnormal that we can look at and maybe give people an idea of the different… Doctor: Well, what we are seeing here is this is about seminary hero who came in comp...
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Interviewer: Is there anything in your diet that can trigger an attack? Doctor: Interesting people say and I have to say I am not a firm believer and that is caffeine, chocolate, caffeine drinks can set this off. In my experience, it is often no p...
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Bariatric Surgery Effects on Diabetes and Hypertension The diabetes is the most recent that has been in all the highlights. It’s the type 2 diabetes--that’s not the one we are born with--that has somewhere along the line come up, that the insulin-...
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How Common Hypertension Is Hypertension is actually so prevalent in the US society that nearly half of adult Americans have a blood pressure that’s greater than 140/90 about 2/3 of them have been told about it and said that, told that it’s a probl...
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Learn About What the Most Common Hypertension Indicator Is I say the most common symptom of Hypertension isn’t any. That’s why they call hypertension “the silent killer”. You have to measure your blood pressure and have to be aware of what it is. ...
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Female Speaker: Chronic kidney disease rarely claims the spotlight, but this dangerous condition is nearly as common as diabetes. Glenn Chertow: Chronic kidney disease affects somewhere between 5% and 10% of the adult population in the US. Female ...
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The connection between high blood pressure and vitamin D is quite concrete. In fact, if we take a look at men, men who have the lowest levels of vitamin D have almost six times the risk of being hypertensive. With women, it’s approximately three t...
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Because we’ve had ten years more of accumulated data and following populations overtime that gee, if we’d only kept it in the 120 range or lower that we would have avoided a large number of cardiovascular complications. Over 120 and under 140 does...
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Smoking directly is what we call a vassal constrictor or mixed blood vessels contract and acts differ. So the pulse wave essentially of ball pressure pulse then incinerate them by the heart is amplified. Unfortunately, smoking also increases the r...
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Dr. Micheal Frye: Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a condition where a person's throat closes down involuntarily at night during sleep. It's worse than snoring is that step beyond snoring, where the throat completely closes and despite the patient tryin...
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Dr. Sathya Jyothinagaram: I am an endocrinologist. Well, in endocrine what I do is of diabetes. Diabetes is the most common endocrine disorder. It's been tremendous the increase in the incidence of diabetes over the last 22 years and you can see t...
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High blood pressure-silent killer Rossa Knab: Well, I think that the primary risk is that it's people who have high blood pressure don't know that they have it. It's known as a Silent Killer and people only know about it after the fact, after they...
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See what happens to your body during a heart attack.
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Dr. Shani Saks: A basic lipid profile contains all of the different types of cholesterol. We need to know the total cholesterol: the bad cholesterol which blocks up in the heart arteries which is called the LDL, the good cholesterol or the HDL, wh...
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What Women Should Know About Cholesterol My name is Brian Lyle. I am a cardiologist here at McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colorado. I specialize in cardiology. I am interested in primary prevention cardiology, focusing on cholesterol problems ...
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Doctor's Tips to Manage Your Cholesterol I think the tips in general for cholesterol management is one, to have an understanding of what your cholesterol is. Often times people do not get their cholesterol checked often enough and we have plenty o...
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What to Ask Your Doctor after an Unhealthy Cholesterol Diagnosis If your doctor tells you that he is concerned about your cholesterol level it’s important to ask him why. You should ask he or she what the problem with your cholesterol level is. Is...
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Dr. Annabelle Volgman: Oatmeal is one of the best foods you can take when your cholesterol is high or even to prevent high cholesterol. It has been studied for 25 years by Quaker, one of the best companies that make oatmeal. They have been doing r...
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Dr. Marianne J. Legato: Well, the implications of high cholesterol may be very different for men and women, more than their response to treatment. We now know that the powerful Statin Drugs, which are used in both sexes, are effective in both sexe...
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Dr. Amy Epps: Cholesterol medicines very, very important. Certainly you don’t want to try diet and exercise first then you don’t want to talk to your physician about this because diet and exercise can lower you cholesterol, can lower you blood pre...
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Woody: Hi my name is Woody I'm from London I just want to know that if I drink alcohol frequently will it affect my cholesterol my level. Leslie cho: Hi Woody, drinking alcohol can definitely affect your cholesterol levels, so if you drink a lot o...
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Tracey: I'm, Tracey and I wanted to ask what foods really help keep your cholesterol down? Roberta Lee: Tracey, the foods that I talk to my patients to keep cholesterol down are foods that have fiber. One of the easiest and cholesterol lowing food...
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Trying to raise the levels of cholesterol your body does need, here is how. If low levels of the good cholesterol HDL is a problem, your doctor may turn to a medication like Niacin, more commonly known as Vitamin B3. The average American diet cont...
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