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FITNESS AND FATNESS: HOW EXCESS FAT CAN AFFECT YOUR HEART

September 29, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD Leave a Comment

Fatness and Fitness

This article was written in collaboration with Dr. Chip Lavie, MD.Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Director, Stress Testing Laboratory. FITNESS AND FATNESS: HOW EXCESS FAT CAN AFFECT YOUR HEART. The Obesity pandemic is well established with >70% of US adults being overweight (BMI >25) or obese (BMI >30) or severely obese (BMI >40). Obesity […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Exercise, Featured Articles, Heart Health Tagged With: AFib, Cardiovascular Risk, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Excess Fat, Fitness, Heart failure, Heart Health, obesity

Stem Cells for the Treatment of Heart Failure

May 4, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD 8 Comments

Stem Cells for the Treatment of Heart Failure

This article was written in collaboration with Dr. Emerson Perin, Director of the Center for Clinical Research, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction is a chronic but progressive disease. Patients can live several years and even decades with chronic systolic heart failure. However, the progression of the disease can lead […]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies, Tests & Investigations Tagged With: Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), heart disease, Heart failure

What If You Have Mild Congestive Heart Failure?

August 26, 2020 by Alain Bouchard, MD 3 Comments

A woman discussing mild congestive heart failure with her doctor, who is holding a chest x-ray image.

Heart failure is a very common disease and affects approximately 1-2 percent of the adult population in developed countries. The prevalence of congestive heart failure rises to about 10% among the population over 70 years of age. Projection in the United States shows that heart failure will increase by more than 40% by the year […]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies Tagged With: Heart failure, mild congestive heart failure

Surviving a Heart Attack: the Big One!

May 22, 2017 by Alain Bouchard, MD 5 Comments

The widow maker heart attack, also known as “the big one”,  is an acute occlusion of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery that can lead to severe heart muscle damage and/or death.  If not treated in a timely matter, surviving a heart attack of this magnitude is very difficult. While visiting Austin, Texas, my wife and I […]

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Disease Tagged With: angiogram, arteriogram, cath, catheterization, coronary artery disease, heart attack, heart disease, Heart failure, LAD, left anterior descending artery, left ventricle, stem cells, stent, widow maker, widowmaker

Huff Puff: Why you might be short of breath

November 25, 2015 by Shane Nanayakkara, MBBS 6 Comments

Why am I short of breath – could it be heart failure?  The term heart failure is a frightening one – often people think about their heart stopping, ‘failing’ as the term goes – leading to death. But, as we’ve learned previously, there’s more to heart failure than the name. How does the heart pump? […]

Filed Under: Heart Disease, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies Tagged With: Heart failure, shortness of breath

The Widow Maker Heart Attack

January 28, 2015 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

The widowmaker is the quintessential heart attack. And it’s dangerous. Find out why they call this LAD blockage the widow maker, what you can do to limit the risks of such a heart attack, and how widowmaker heart attacks are treated.

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease, Featured Articles Tagged With: Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), Heart failure, stent

How to Become a Cardiologist

December 23, 2014 by Anant Kharod MD 58 Comments

How to Become a Cardiologist

The Early Stages of Becoming a Cardiologist At myheart.net we’ve helped millions of people through our articles and answers. Now our authors are keeping readers up to date with cutting edge heart disease information through twitter. Follow Dr Ahmed on Twitter @MustafaAhmedMD Follow @MustafaAhmedMD If you are reading this article on how to become a cardiologist, […]

Filed Under: General Health, Heart Disease Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Blood pressure, Chest pain, Echocardiography, heart disease, Heart failure, heart valve

Mitral Valve Regurgitation (Mitral Insufficiency)

November 30, 2014 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 10 Comments

Mitral Valve regurgitation mitral insufficiency

By Mustafa Ahmed MD What is Mitral Valve Regurgitation (Mitral Insufficiency)? Mitral Valve Regurgitation also known as Mitral Insufficiency is basically a leaky mitral valve. As a doctor that specializes in heart valve disease, this is the most common valve problem I see. The mitral valve stops blood flowing backwards from the main chamber of […]

Filed Under: Heart Valves Tagged With: Cardiovascular disease, heart disease, Heart failure, heart valve, leaky heart valve, leaky mitral valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP)

Sinus Arrhythmia – What Is It?

November 27, 2014 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 79 Comments

What is Sinus Arrhythmia? What is sinus arrhythmia? Heartbeats are like clockwork. In the same way the second hand on a clock ticks regularly each second, the heart has an electrical impulse that is generated and leads to a heartbeat in a regular manner. The timing between each of these generated impulses is known as […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Arrhythmias Tagged With: Cardiovascular disease, heart disease, Heart failure, heart rhythm

PVC Heart Beats – Are They Dangerous?

July 30, 2014 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 221 Comments

PVC Heart Beats

PVC’s are common. Some people are troubled by just a few PVC’s where as others may have a PVC heart beat almost every other beat and not even notice it. Apart from being annoying to some (symptoms are sometimes described as heart flutter), are they of long-term significance? In this article we will look at […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Arrhythmias Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), heart disease, Heart failure, heart rhythm

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