Heart Health

Many fac­tors can increase your risk for heart dis­ease. Learn the risk fac­tors of heart dis­ease and how to low­er yours.

While warmer tem­per­a­tures can be relax­ing, they can also be dead­ly. Here’s how heat affects your heart — and some sun safe­ty tips to prac­tice this summer. 

As heart dis­ease con­tin­ues to be the lead­ing cause of death in the Unit­ed States, seek­ing med­ical atten­tion ear­ly for any pos­si­ble heart-relat­ed symp­toms is crit­i­cal. Learn more about how a Car­dio­Graphe CT Scan can help diag­nose var­i­ous heart conditions. 

Accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Heart Asso­ci­a­tion, more than 1 in 3 adults have some form of car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease. The good news is that 80% of heart dis­ease and stroke can be pre­vent­ed. Heart attack signs in women can be vast­ly dif­fer­ent than in men and can be con­fused with less life-threat­en­ing situations.

At just 43 years old and on a trip with friends to New Orleans, Bill began suf­fer­ing from debil­i­tat­ing back pain and what he thought was heart­burn. With a mis­sion of just mak­ing it home, he had no idea that the pain he was expe­ri­enc­ing was a heart attack. Just two months after surgery, Bill and his inter­ven­tion­al car­di­ol­o­gist, Dr. Abdul Sankari, share his sto­ry and how oth­ers can avoid heart disease.

Advanced car­diac imag­ing is the foun­da­tion for dis­cov­er­ing accu­rate and ear­ly diag­no­sis. Through pre­cise imag­ing, car­di­ol­o­gists are able to iden­ti­fy your heart con­di­tion and cre­ate an effec­tive treat­ment plan for your diag­no­sis. The fol­low­ing imag­ing tech­niques have become some of the most effec­tive meth­ods for iden­ti­fy­ing heart disease.

Accord­ing to the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, near­ly 71 mil­lion Amer­i­can adults have high cho­les­terol and only 1 out of every 3 adults with high cho­les­terol has their con­di­tion under con­trol. In fact, peo­ple with high cho­les­terol have approx­i­mate­ly twice the risk of heart dis­ease than peo­ple with opti­mal lev­els. Plus, hav­ing high cho­les­terol puts you at risk for devel­op­ing heart dis­ease which is the lead­ing cause of death in the Unit­ed States.

Heart dis­ease remains the No. 1 cause of death in the US and kills near­ly 380,000 peo­ple a year. While this mor­tal­i­ty rate has fall­en dra­mat­i­cal­ly over the last 10 years, risk fac­tors are still alarm­ing­ly high. Pre­ven­tion is an essen­tial ele­ment in the fight against heart dis­ease — much of which can be man­aged through diet.

Atri­al fib­ril­la­tion (also referred to as a‑fib or AF) is one of the most com­mon types of abnor­mal heart rhythms. Our Car­di­ol­o­gy depart­ment offers the WATCH­MAN pro­ce­dure to pro­vide patients with an alter­na­tive treat­ment option through a one-time, safe and effec­tive min­i­mal­ly inva­sive procedure.

Duly Health and Care is offer­ing Coro­nary Cal­ci­um Score CT Scans for $75.