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Should You Take A Statin To Lower Your Cholesterol?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

This is about estimating your near-term risk of a heart attack. The most accurate way (But not the only way) to answer this question is whether or not you have plaque in your coronary arteries. This also means that if you have a CAC score of 0, you have no calcified plaque in your coronary arteries. Not zero risk.

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Get A Look At What's Inside The Heart Health Formula

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The Understanding Heart Disease module includes lessons on: Why the standard model is broken. Understanding Heart Disease. Heart Attack versus Heart Disease. Heart Disease Starts Earlier Than You Think. Symptoms Of Heart Disease. Get Heart Disease Right Get Everything Else Right.

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How To Reverse Coronary Artery Disease With Lifestyle Measures

Dr. Paddy Barrett

In general, the more calcified or fibrous a plaque is, the less dangerous it is, as it is less likely to rupture and cause a heart attack. Fatty or necrotic plaque is often described as ‘vulnerable’ plaque, with the vulnerability being related to the risk of a heart attack.

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What's Inside The Heart Health Formula?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The Understanding Heart Disease module includes lessons on: Why the standard model is broken. Understanding Heart Disease. Heart Attack versus Heart Disease. Heart Disease Starts Earlier Than You Think. Symptoms Of Heart Disease. Get Heart Disease Right Get Everything Else Right.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko famously rejected the objective reality of Mendelian genetics because it clashed with the Marxist philosophy that the environment, not genetics, was the primary determinant of outcomes. But what should matter is outcomes not diagnoses. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He was readmitted a few weeks later for a heart failure exacerbation, diuresed, and discharged again. The last information available is that the patient was undergoing heart transplant evaluation. This gets drilled into them. The wall motion abnormalities of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and LAD OMI can be similar. Was this coincidence?