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Looking for information on treatments for heart disease? The Everything Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to manage your condition and lead a healthy life.Inside youll find expert advice and helpful tips on deciding the best course of treatment for you, including information on medications, treatment options, and lifestyle changes. As you deal with your heart disease, the more you know about your options, the better you will be able to take charge of your condition.

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The Everything Healthy Living Series
Heart Disease: Heart Disease Treatments
The most important information you need to improve your health
Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Contents
Introduction

For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything series for expert advice and important information on health topics ranging from pregnancy and postpartum care to heart health, anxiety, and diabetes. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Everything health guides help you get the right diagnosis, choose the best doctor, and find the treatment options that work for you.

The Everything Healthy Living Series books are concise guides, focusing on only the essential information you need. Whether youre looking for an overview of traditional and alternative migraine treatments, advice on starting a heart-healthy lifestyle, or suggestions for finding the right medical team, theres an Everything Healthy Living Book for you.

Heart Disease

You may have heard of heart disease. Every day it seems a new article comes out about what heart disease does or what affects your heart. Not many people, though, know the full story.

Heart disease is known to be associated with heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular diseases. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes may put you at risk. By understanding and managing these risk factors, you can avoid premature death and disability.

Having these risk factors causes buildup in your arteries, the blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients to your brain. When these arteries get too clogged, parts of your organs cannot receive what cells need to survive. If this happens in the blood vessels to the heart, you may develop a heart attack. If this happens in the blood vessels to your brain, you would suffer a stroke. These diseases can leave you disabled, paralyzed, or even kill you.

What you might not know is that you can modify your risk factors and decrease the chance that you will ever develop heart disease. If you know how to lower the bad type of cholesterol and increase the good type, you can significantly prevent clogging or even unclog your arteries, reducing your chance of suffering heart attacks and strokes.

To start to manage your risk factors, you need to get tested beginning at a fairly young age. These tests require repeating every few years, and if you are higher risk, you may need testing more often to determine the proper treatment. This knowledge will help to guide you as you implement changes in your life to improve what puts you at risk.

Heart disease can be greatly influenced by your diet, physical activity, if you smoke, your weight, and your levels of stress. By making certain changes in these areas, you can reduce your chance of early death and disability. Simple changes, such as eating fewer calories and bad fats in exchange for more fiber, nutrients, and good fats, can tremendously influence your risk of heart disease. Even a modest amount of physical activity a few days a week, no matter what the activity, can have a huge impact. Not smoking and reducing stress can also make a significant impact on your risk.

These changes work by modifying many risk factors at once, such as lowering your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar. Also, such changes in your lifestyle will give you more energy and an improved mood, improving the quality of your life.

Over the past twenty years, significant progress has been made in developing medications that address diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol and reduce the chance of cardiovascular disease. These medications can create negative side effects, but the benefits may outweigh the risks.

Overall, by understanding heart disease, how it acts, what you can do to manage it, and how to implement those actions, you can influence your future health tremendously, while potentially improving your current life.

If youd like to learn more about heart disease, check out The Everything Guide to Preventing Heart Disease , available in print (978-1-4405-2820-0) and eBook (978-1-4405-2888-0) formats.

Drug Therapy

Reducing your risk of cardiovascular disease, disability, and death requires that you make a commitment to support and enhance healthful living. Medications support this process. Drugs can be valuable tools to help you achieve optimal health. For some people, drug therapy to manage lipid levels is the best short-term action, until lifestyle changes have time to improve cardiovascular health. For others, drug therapy is the only way to address genetic tendencies toward unhealthy lipid levels.

When to Use Drugs

As you read about side effects, keep in mind that pharmaceuticals are potentially very beneficial. Do not become alarmed by precautions and necessary safeguards its important to have information to make intelligent choices. Medications, like most medical interventions, require an examination of the risk versus benefit. This is why medications are often considered only after lifestyle changes.

Studies show that drug therapy is more effective when used together with lifestyle changes to achieve healthy cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. When you incorporate a multipronged approach, you get results more quickly, you are able to reduce your medication levels sooner, and you will feel the improvements in your health more rapidly.


Essential

Though medications may be an important part of risk-factor modification, lifestyle modification always comes first. Not only will adjusting your lifestyle benefit multiple risk factors, but unlike medications, the side effects are only positive ones.


Your physician may prescribe combination drug therapy, depending on the risk factors and whether you already have heart disease. The target cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood sugar is more aggressive for people with certain existing problems. To achieve this low level, your physician may prescribe a combination of medications in addition to lifestyle changes. Depending on the combination of drugs, side effects may decrease due to needing a lower dosage of each drug or increase due to drug interactions.

When you are put on therapeutic medications, your physician will regularly monitor your blood pressure, blood sugar, or cholesterol levels to ascertain your progress. If you do not reach your goal after three months with a single drug, your doctor may recommend a second medicine to improve your progress. If you report particular side effects to your physician, she may also prescribe lower doses of a combination of medications to lessen the possibility of adverse effects.

Should You Take an Aspirin a Day?

As most heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots, more attention has been given to medications that help prevent blood clots to possibly prevent these devastating diseases. Blood thinners, such as Heparin and Coumadin, have not been shown to significantly reduce the chances of having a heart attack or stroke. Antiplatelet drugs, the most well known being aspirin, have been shown to have such an effect. There are other antiplatelet medications as well, but these are only available by prescription and generally for certain people who are extremely high risk, such as those who have had heart attacks and/or have an aspirin allergy.

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