Comments (48) | Post a CommentHaving a Heart Attack? Not on a Weekend
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 8:01 pm PDTWell, the best option is not to have a heart attack at all. But if you have one and are admitted to the hospital on a weekend, you have a 5 percent higher risk of dying in the following month than if you were…Read More
Quiz: Your Heart-Health Nutrition Knowledge
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 3:21 am PDTEveryone knows that a healthy diet is one way to help prevent cardiovascular disease and possibly avoid taking medications. But you may be confused about which dietary recommendations to follow, because they…Read More
Finding the Trans Fats
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Tue, Sep 11, 2007, 9:53 am PDTI was pleasantly surprised the other day when my wife brought home a brand of margarine whose package proclaimed that the product contained no trans fats. I hope this statement is accurate and not just an…Read More
Lifelong Low LDL Cholesterol: Are You Off the Hook?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Mon, Sep 10, 2007, 11:20 pm PDTSome people are fortunate enough to have an uncommon genetic variant that speeds the removal of harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from the blood - these lucky people have significantly lower LDL cholesterol…Read More
Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat Diets
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Sun, Sep 09, 2007, 4:52 am PDTWill the debate about the relative virtues of low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets for weight loss never end? All the chatter is doubly annoying since, until now, all the talk is backed up by little data…Read More
Assessing Your Heart Attack and Stroke Risk
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Fri, Sep 07, 2007, 1:26 pm PDTAre there accurate ways to predict the likelihood that you will have, or die from, a heart attack or stroke in the near future?Quite a few "biomarkers," or predictors, of these dire events have been discovered.…Read More
Waist-to-Hip Ratio vs. BMI: What's the Better Heart Disease Predictor?
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Thu, Sep 06, 2007, 4:29 pm PDTResearchers have put their seal of approval on a simple, do-it-yourself method to accurately assess your risk of acute heart trouble. Up to now, BMI (body mass index) has been the time-honored measure of the…Read More
Good News About Estrogen Therapy After Menopause
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Sun, Jul 08, 2007, 6:56 pm PDTPostmenopausal women and their doctors are getting tired of trying to use "evidence-based medicine" to make decisions about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). At first, I and other physicians enthusiastically…Read More
Weight Loss Therapy May Improve Heart Health Markers
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Tue, Jul 03, 2007, 9:49 am PDTAbnormal function of the endothelial cells, which line the walls of all blood vessels, and elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are associated with an increased risk of heart attacks.Obese people tend to…Read More
ED: Powerful Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease
Posted By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 3:01 pm PDTErectile dysfunction (ED) is estimated to affect more than half of men between ages 40 and 70 and about 70 percent of men over the age of 70. Although an association between ED and coronary heart disease (CHD)…Read More
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