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Fatness and Fitness with Chip Lavie

September 22, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD Leave a Comment

Fatness and Fitness

Well, welcome to our podcast on the Fatness and Fitness. And with us today, we have a very distinguished Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Director, Stress Testing Laboratory, Dr. Chip Lavie, MD. Subscribe to the MyHeart.net Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. No ratings yet. Tell Us How We're Doing… Was This Article Helpful?

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Exercise, Heart Health, Podcast

TREATMENT FOR OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY

September 15, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD 1 Comment

This article was written in collaboration with Dr. Timothy Garvey, MD. Professor; Director, Diabetes Research Center TREATMENT FOR OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY The prevalence of obesity, defined as excess body fat causing compromise to health, has increased over the last few decades. It is estimated that up to 49% of the world’s population and 70% of […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured Articles Tagged With: BMI, Body Mass Index, Diabetes, obesity, Overweight, Treatment

Weight Loss with Dr. Tim Garvey

September 2, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD Leave a Comment

Well, welcome to our podcast on the treatment of overweight and obesity. And with us today, we have a very distinguished professor of medicine department of nutritional sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Timothy Garvey. Subscribe to the MyHeart.net Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. No ratings yet. Tell Us How We're Doing… […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Podcast

Cardiac Rehab with Dr. Chip Lavie

July 18, 2022 by Elizabeth Hagale 1 Comment

Treadmills are an important part of cardiac rehab.

Surviving a heart attack is difficult enough, but for many patients, this is just the beginning of an often overlooked journey. Dr. Alain Bouchard discusses cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention with Dr. Chip Lavie, Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention and Director of the Exercise Laboratories at the John Ochsner […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Podcast

Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention

July 13, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD 10 Comments

Cardiac Rehabilitation

This article was written in collaboration with Dr. Chip Lavie. In the US, it is estimated that approximately 800,000 new and 200,000 recurrent myocardial infarctions occur each year. The prevalence of coronary artery disease and heart failure is increasing. Each year, over 950,000 patients undergo percutaneous coronary angioplasty, 400,000 patients undergo coronary bypass surgery, and […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Exercise, Featured Articles, Heart Disease

A Pro-Inflammatory Diet Increases the Risk of Dementia

June 15, 2022 by Louis Bherer, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

Dementia

In this article from December 23, 2021, Dr. Louis Bherer of the Montreal Heart Institute explores the connection between a pro-inflammatory diet and the risk of dementia. OVERVIEW In a study on aging and diet conducted in Greece, 1,059 older people reported in detail what they ate for three years. At the end of the […]

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition, Featured Articles Tagged With: dementia, diet, inflammation

PTSD in Frontline Healthcare Workers: A Ripple Effect of the Pandemic

May 25, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD Leave a Comment

Burnout in healthcare workers

During the pandemic, frontline hospital workers have seen more deaths than U.S. soldiers have seen during all the wars combined. COVID-19 posed a great challenge to frontline healthcare workers. They were forced to measure themself against a disease that was risky to their own health as well as their patients. This was particularly challenging at […]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, General Health, Risk & Prevention Tagged With: mental health, ptsd

Late Cardiac Effects After Stem Cell or Bone Marrow Transplants

April 5, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD Leave a Comment

Woman after surgery

This article was written in collaboration with Drs. Wendy Bottinor from VCU Health, Richmond, Virginia, and Carrie Lenneman from UAB School of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama. Approximately 1 million stem cell or bone marrow transplants are performed worldwide. In the US, 20,000 stem cell transplants (SCT) are performed each year for hematological malignancies such as […]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Heart Disease, Risk & Prevention

Cancer and Blood Clots: Who Is at Risk and How Do We Treat?

February 9, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD Leave a Comment

Chemotherapy drugs photographed by National Cancer Institute.

This article was written in collaboration with Yan Liu MD, Ph.D., Director of Cardio-Oncology, Ascension Seton, Medical Director, Ascension Texas Cardiovascular Seton Northwest, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Ascension Texas. Venous thrombosis as manifested by superficial thrombophlebitis, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and pulmonary embolism (PTE or the […]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, General Health, Heart Disease, Heart Health, Tests & Investigations

When Cancer and Blood Clots Collide with Dr. Yan Liu

February 9, 2022 by Alain Bouchard, MD Leave a Comment

Chemotherapy drugs

What happens when cancer and blood clots collide? Dr. Alain Bouchard is joined by Dr. Yan Liu, Director of Cardio-Oncology at Ascension Seton, in a discussion of the cardiology risks involved when cancer patients undergo treatment. Subscribe to the MyHeart.net Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. 5/5 (1) Tell Us How We're Doing… Was This Article […]

Filed Under: Heart Health, Podcast

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