Thursday, February 16, 2012

More Heart Attacks Diagnosed, but Lower Mortality Rate

One would think that with all the advances in drugs, diet advice, nutritional supplement support, and lifestyle changes being made that the rate of heart attacks would be dropping like a rock.  Today, we have methods like heart scans and calcium scores to identify more at risk persons and lipopr...
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CONNIE ARTHUR
3/ 6/09 11:24pm

 I HAVE BEEN TAKING THIS TABLET FOR A YEAR, AT THE TIME MY CHOL WAS 230, I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL LAST WEEK BECAUSE OF THE PAIN IN MY LEFT ARM AND NECK WAS SO PAINFUL   THE DR. FOUND NOUGHT MY CONCUSE WAS MY CHOL IS 116TO ME THAT IS TOO LOW..................CONNIE athomeconniea@yahoo.com

3/ 7/09 2:51am

Connie:

 

I help moderate a forum and program where the cardiologist recommends LDL as low as 60mg/dL which is much lower than your value of 116.  In fact, values below 100 are advocated by many leading cardiologists.  Did they determine what was the cause of your pain?

 

Regards,

 

 

HeartHawk

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Anonymous
3/19/09 3:25pm
Good article, its really informative. Another great heart health link which could be of help is http://www.bizymoms.com/cares/heart_health/index.html, I would suggest you go and have a look at their articles and resources. Thank You.

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