Heart 411
ISBN: 9780307719904 | 0307719901
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date: 1/31/2012
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The definitive guide to heart health from two of America's most respected doctors at Cleveland Clinic, the #1 hospital for heart health in America. Are you one of the eighty-two million Americans currently diagnosed with cardiovascular disease-or one of the millions more who think they are healthy but are at risk? Whether your goal is to get the best treatment or stay out of the cardiologist's office, your heart's health depends upon accurate information and correct answers to key questions. In Heart 411, two renowned experts, heart surgeon Mar... MORE
| Heart Health and Disease: The Basics That You Must Know | |
| Saving your life | p. 3 |
| Coronary heart disease: The risk factors you know and those you don't | p. 12 |
| Cholesterol: Friend and foe | p. 42 |
| Your weight and your heart: How extra pounds create excess risk | p. 66 |
| A Plan for Prevention | |
| Food for the heart | p. 91 |
| Red wine and your heart: A drink a day may keep the c... MORE | p. 123 |
| Exercise and your heart: Which type and how much? | p. 138 |
| Emotion and your heart: You can be scared to death | p. 166 |
| How to tell fact from fiction: Sorting through the medical evidence | p. 193 |
| Which heart tests do you need? | p. 217 |
| Fixing the Broken Heart | |
| Medicines for the heart: The big six | p. 253 |
| Stents versus surgery for coronary heart disease: To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail | p. 283 |
| A chance to cut is a chance to cure: What you need to know before heart surgery | p. 307 |
| You've got the beat: Keeping your heart in rhythm | p. 337 |
| Living with heart failure | p. 369 |
| Vitamins and supplements: Trick or treatment? | p. 396 |
| Personal Plans | |
| The mysteries of Venus: Understanding the hearts of women | p. 421 |
| Heart disease in men: It is all partly about sex | p. 448 |
| Heart disease in kids: Prevention starts now! | p. 471 |
| Looking Forward | |
| Heart health (and repair) in the future: Star Trek, here we come! | p. 499 |
| Epilogue: Putting heart doctors out of business | p. 529 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 533 |
| Index | p. 537 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Marc Gillinov M.D., is a staff cardiac surgeon at the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic. Steven Nissen, M.D., is the chairman of the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic.
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