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Category Archives: Heart Disease Prevention
Getting Hypertension Under Control
This past week an article in The New England Journal Medicine highlighted a frustrating paradox in cardiovascular health — despite remarkable advancements in our ability to lower blood pressure there are more people today with uncontrolled hypertension than ever before. (1) The … Continue reading
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Tagged cardiovascular, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension
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Statins — Panacea or Too Good To Be True?
Doctors have known for some time that in people who have already had a major coronary event (e.g., heart attack) statins reduce the risk of a second event. Most studies estimate that statins reduce the risk of death in patients who … Continue reading
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Tagged cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, preventative, preventive medicine, statin
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The End of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 2
This is the second entry in a series aimed at changing the way most of us think about cardiovascular disease prevention. In my last entry, I presented four key messages about CHD prevention (http://beyondapples.org/2009/06/23/the-end-of-cardiovascular-disease-part-1/). In this entry, I will expand … Continue reading
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The End of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 1
A commonly held belief amongst people inside and outside of medicine is that only about 50 percent of heart attacks are preventable. (A month ago my best estimate would have been 70 to 75 percent.) That is, through the perfect … Continue reading
Happy World Hypertension Day!
Today is May 17th. You know what that means? It’s World Hypertension Day! Designated every May 17th, World Hypertension Day highlights the preventable stroke, heart and kidney diseases caused by high blood pressure and to communicate to the public information on … Continue reading
