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September 22, 2004
Taking Care Of Your Heart
Interview
with Michael Mogandan, MD author of the book, Every
Heart Attack Is Preventable
Mike
Carruthers:
Heart disease is preventable and yet…
Michael
Mogandan:
More people die in this country of coronary vascular
diseases than all the cancers, all the diabetes, all the respiratory
problems, all the infections including AIDS.
Dr. Michael
Mogandan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University
and author of the book Every
Heart Attack Is Preventable says there are twenty different
risk factors for heart disease and yet…
All that
is talked about is cholesterol, high blood pressure, sedentary
lifestyle and smoking, but that doesn't do it. It's not one
or the other. We have kept telling people that if you lower
your cholesterol, if you lower your blood pressure and if you
quit smoking everything is going to be fine. It is not. Every
risk factor needs to be controlled.
One of the
twenty risk factors you may not have heard of is abdominal obesity.
In other words a big gut.
The fat
inside the belly is distinctly different from the fat in your
shoulders your hips and elsewhere. People who have abdominal
obesity invariably they have another associative risk factor
and that's called insulin resistance, tendency towards diabetes.
And these people are the ones that have very low HDL cholesterol.
You need to get rid of the abdominal obesity. One of the most
important ways of doing that is to do regular physical activity.
There is no alternative to it. Physical activity can take up
at least five of the top twenty risk factors.
For transcripts
visit our website somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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