“… about heart disease and inflammation — you truly are a doctor who lives the words, ‘First of all do NO harm!’ We thank you with all our heart. May GOD richly reward you. Gratefully, Marshall and Rose Cardiff”
This support community is for and about you! Your being here indicates one of many things — you have heart disease, suffered a heart attack, have undergone by-pass surgery, want to prevent heart disease or someone you love is battling heart disease. You are not alone! Let’s look at a few sobering statistics:
- Heart disease treatment costs our country over $500,000,000,000 per year (yes, that’s right billions).
- 81 million adults in the U.S. currently have one or more types of cardiovascular disease that they know about.
- Americans make more than 79,000,000 doctor visits every year for treatment and management of cardiovascular disease.
With all this effort, money and with the “Standard of Practice” that requires doctors to treat patients with elevated cholesterol with statin drugs, to instruct the patient with a low-fat diet, and with the efforts of the American Heart Association and the multiple governmental programs to prevent heart disease, shouldn’t this problem be solved? [click here to continue reading..]
If there was ever a question that would elicit strong opinions in the medical community, especially amongst cardiologists whose specialty is caring for people with heart disease, it is that question, can you reverse heart disease?
The textbook definition of heart disease, or more specifically coronary artery atherosclerosis, is a progressive disease to be treated but not cured.
Some authors have described a steady progression of the disease; however more careful analysis reveals that while coronary atherosclerosis starts when we are young, its progression is not steadily progressive but goes through active and quiescent phases.
Most cardiologists and other Physicians will insist that heart disease cannot be reversed. Some will focus totally on cholesterol levels and insist that taking a cholesterol lowering drug is all that is needed and won’t discuss it further. To continue reading this post, please log in. If you are not a member, please considering joining us! Learn more on our membership page here.
The history of heart disease and how we evolved to coronary artery stents and angioplasty is an interesting one. Many millions of people have had their symptoms of heart disease reduced and eliminated by the insertion of coronary stents.
The most dramatic benefit from angioplasty and stenting occurs in people who are experiencing an acute heart attack. By 1997 one million angioplasties were performed and by 2001, this rose to two million annually making it the most common medical procedure in the world. The growth in the number of angioplasties and stents last year brought over $7.5 billion to the makers of the devices. To continue reading this post, please log in. If you are not a member, please consider joining us! Learn more on our membership page here.
You are about to learn the truth about heart disease. Better said – the facts about heart disease and why it is still the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women. Let’s begin with you – do you have it?
I do. And, you almost certainly do, too.
An autopsy study of young people who died unusually from accidents demonstrated that 100% of 20 year-old's had the beginning of heart disease in their coronary arteries and in the main blood vessel called the aorta. [click here to continue reading..]
