Sentences with phrase «preventive cardiologist»
A preventive cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in helping people prevent heart diseases. They give advice on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as eating nutritious food, exercising regularly, and managing stress. Their goal is to stop heart problems from happening before they occur, keeping your heart healthy. Full definition
«Our research provides some reassuring evidence suggesting that there is no determinantal effect of infrequent, relatively light use of marijuana on kidney function among healthy adults under age 60,» commented lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing preventive cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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After 50 years of being a mainstay cholesterol therapy, niacin should no longer be prescribed for most patients due to potential increased risk of death, dangerous side effects and no benefit in reducing heart attacks and strokes, writes Northwestern Medicine ® preventive cardiologist Donald Lloyd - Jones, M.D., in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial.
Wheat Belly, by preventive cardiologist William Davis, MD, explains how eliminating wheat from our diets is the key to achieving permanent weight loss and relief from a wide range of health issues including digestive disorders and immune problems.
«The results surprised us, because, based on other studies elsewhere, we hypothesized that MUFA would be superior to PUFA for weight loss and improvement in heart - related parameters,» says lead author Michael Miller, MD, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and preventive cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
«A spouse can help keep doctor's appointments and provide transportation, making for easier access to health care services,» said Dr. Jeffrey Berger, another senior member of the project and a preventive cardiologist at NYU.
Still, Alenghat, a preventive cardiologist interested in the intersection of inflammation and cardiovascular disease, stressed there are several limitations to this study.
«Folic acid has a role in decreasing homocysteine, but decreasing homocysteine doesn't seem to have a role in the outcome of heart disease,» says Suzanne Steinbaum, DO, a preventive cardiologist with Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City.
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum is a preventive cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
In this video, Laurence Sperling, MD, a preventive cardiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, explains that depression combined with heart disease is physical as well as psychological.
«This meta - analysis should be interpreted with caution,» says Suzanne Steinbaum, DO, a preventive cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
(MATTHEW SORRENTINO) Matthew Sorrentino, MD, is a preventive cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
However, the next time you brag that your cholesterol is nice and low — or lament that your number is in the mid-200s — know this: «Your total cholesterol is a pretty meaningless number,» says Maureen Mays, MD, a preventive cardiologist and lipid specialist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
Despite the study's shortcomings, the findings do suggest that sodium guidelines should perhaps take into account differences among individuals, says Randal Thomas, MD, a preventive cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn..
While genetics play a large role in your heart disease risk factors, Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O., a preventive cardiologist from New York and a national Go Red For Women volunteer, says keeping track of your numbers always helps.
«We always think about liver disease and what we are seeing from this trial is that we have to keep a look out for acute kidney failure too,» said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a preventive cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
«It might be that if someone is married, they have a spouse who encourages them to take better care of themselves,» says Dr. Jeffrey Berger, a preventive cardiologist at NYU, according to the AP.