Heart Health 2011
So, what have your neighbors done for you lately? A part-by-part look at groundbreaking advances being pioneered right here, right now.
Change of Heart with Dr. David Becker
HEART HEALTH 2011 CONTRIBUTORS
- Video: Change of Heart: How to change your life in six weeks
Lifestyle Modification
Cardiologist David Becker's lifestyle-modification class, which teaches people who have had heart attacks - or are at risk of having one - how to reverse their own disease, can now be seen online.
Change of Heart tips
It’s more than a diet, but a chance to change your lifestyle and begin to change your cardiac destiny.
- Video: Refrigerator Intervention
What's in your fridge?
Kimberly Garrison: Gene Fatula doesn't want to be shackled to cholesterol-lowering drugs for life and would prefer to shed those excess pounds. That's why he and his family agreed to let me raid their refrigerator.
The importance of vitamin D
Vitamin D has been much in the news in recent years, with books and articles touting its benefits for myriad medical conditions. So, does it help the heart? Maybe.
EECP: Oversized Blood-Pressure Cuffs
EECP has been shown to be effective in relieving chest pain and to provide benefits similar to those of vigorous exercise, even for patients whose disease makes such exercise impossible.
Atrial Fibrillation
Most a-fib patients are doing well. There have been significant improvements in drugs, and new knowledge and technology are improving ablation, the other major treatment option.
- Video: ICD surgery animation
Experimental ICDs
A new implantable cardioverter defibrillator eliminates the most malfunction-prone part of the conventional ICD - the electrical wires, or leads, that are threaded through a vein and placed in or on the heart.
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