Archive for April 2, 2009
TREATING ANGINA: TYPES OF ANGINA
The first decision that has to be made is on the urgency of your case. Angina is divided into three main forms: stable, unstable, and variant (also called vasospastic or Prinzmetal’s angina). In stable angina, there is usually a fixed stenosis of a particular segment of coronary artery that regularly leads to angina after the [...]
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THE BENEFITS FOR YOUR HEART: MARATHONS AND HALF-MARATHONS
Some of Dr. Kavanagh’s patients suggested that they try a marathon—marathons being popular at the time. He was doubtful at first, but then encouraged them. After careful training, all seven of his first group of patients finished the twenty-six-mile journey with no ill effects. They then presented him with a trophy inscribed “Supercoach, the World’s [...]
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ANGINA/CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE: THE FIRST STEP
The first step is to get into a routine with your angina. Whenever the pain starts, wherever you are, you must stop and rest completely, and remain at rest for thirty minutes. This gives your heart time to recover from the ischemic episode. Note the attack, how severe it was, its relationship to exercise or [...]
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HEART DISEASE: THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY AND THE BRITISH REGIONAL HEART STUDY
While the Finns were taking action, the Americans and British were still gathering data. The classic study of heart disease in individuals is that produced in the small New England community of Framingham, Massachusetts, eighteen miles west of Boston. In 1948, five thousand men and women aged thirty to fifty-nine years from the population of [...]
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PATTERNS OF ANGINA: JIM
Jim is forty-one years old, and a friend of mine. He signed on as a patient in my practice three years ago, when he moved into the district. Jim, a freelance graphic designer, had welcomed the move from the city to our rural idyll in the west of Scotland, seeing it as a haven of [...]
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