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How Does Exercise Prevent Heart Disease?

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Paul Dudley White, the famous physician who has taught many a luminary in the field of cardiology once wrote that heart disease before eighty is our fault and not God’s will or nature’s will. This means that he recognized long back, the role of life-style modification in preventing heart disease.

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In Your 40s to 60s And Worried About Heart Disease? Here Is What You Can Do.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

They knew they had not been doing all the things they should do, and they were worried that heart disease had them in its sights. Risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, and inactivity are important because the longer you are exposed to them, the higher the odds you will develop coronary artery disease sooner in life.

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7 Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Risk Even If You Already Have Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Preventing or delaying the onset of coronary artery disease is a great strategy for living longer. The challenge is that the things you do to prevent heart disease are unlikely to pay dividends for a very long time—many years if not decades. This is a program that starts the day of your heart attack. N Engl J Med.

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Clinical utility of lipoprotein(a): an interventionist’s perspective

The British Journal of Cardiology

Large-scale observational data have demonstrated a robust, independent association of elevated lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) levels with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke, and peripheral artery disease.

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Agepha Pharma and Caristo Diagnostics Team Up to Fight Coronary Inflammation

DAIC

The companies will jointly support a series of educational forums among clinicians beginning later this year highlighting the significant new scientific breakthroughs that are radically transforming the traditional approach to heart disease prevention and prediction. In June 2023, the U.S.

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American College of Cardiology ACC.24 Late-breaking Science and Guidelines Session Summary

DAIC

24: Joint American College of Cardiology/Journal of the American College of Cardiology Late-Breaking Clinical Trials (Session 402) Saturday, April 6 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

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The Advantages Of A CT Coronary Angiogram

Dr. Paddy Barrett

A CTCA provides much more anatomical detail and can identify advanced plaque often missed by CT Coronary Artery Calcium Score scans alone. This approach also reduces death from heart disease and heart attacks by 41% compared to conventional approaches such as exercise stress testing 2. More often than you would think!