Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The primary reason for managing risk factors is to reduce events, including heart attacks. Recent data has shown that these medications also reduce the incidence of major heart events by 20%, including heart attacks and cardiovascular death and also extend lifespan in those with a prior heart attack 4.

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DAIC

AUGUST 21, 2024

The results were calculated using a new, proposed risk prediction scale for heart failure specifically for American Indian adults. The study’s limitations include incomplete information of different heart failure subtypes, as well as limited data on participants’ history of heart attack.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

JUNE 25, 2024

In short, we were effectively accused of being liars, and ‘ purveyors of misinformation ’ about statins (drugs that lower LDL/cholesterol). Because of our lies hundreds of thousands of people had stopped taking statins, resulting in (potentially) many thousands of heart attacks, strokes and deaths.

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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

A new joint guideline from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and nine other medical societies reports early diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease is essential to improve outcomes and reduce amputation risk, heart attack, stroke and death for people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 16, 2024

They are not crash diets to fit into your swimwear. So What Is The Efficacy Of Diet & Exercise For Weight Loss? All diets work. Lifestyle measures, including all diets, are very effective but just do not have a very high efficacy. Like any medication, they come with risks. Efficacy tells us what is probable.

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Wellnest

JULY 19, 2023

Have you wondered what causes a heart attack? Three coronary arteries supply blood to the heart. When one of these arteries becomes completely blocked by a blood clot, it results in a heart attack, also known as MI (Myocardial infarction). So, how do you recognize a heart attack?

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 3, 2024

During each consultation with a patient, I would have to explain certain topics related to heart health, and I found myself repeating them over and over. What is a normal cholesterol? What kind of diet should I eat? What is heart disease? Heart Disease Starts Early In Life. Heart Disease Doesn’t Kill People.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Basically she had been to see her GP and because her cholesterol was found to be a little on the higher side, she was being strongly advised by her GP to take a Statin. High Cholesterol is not really a condition unless it impacts on the patient’s quality of life or length of life. A lady in her 60s recently consulted me.

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DAIC

MARCH 8, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved an additional indication for Wegovy ( semaglutide ) to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight along with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

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