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Additional Risk of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Last week we looked at 3 things that affect your risk for coronary artery disease (CAD): blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. This week we will discuss 3 more things that can affect your risk, weight management, smoking, and cardiovascular exercise....
How can you decrease your risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)?
Today we’ll answer this important question: How can you decrease your risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)? Many things affect this. Let’s take them one at a time. Blood pressure High blood pressure will damage the arteries and affect the heart...
Coronary Artery Disease
Blocked Artery Last week, we covered the key facts of the heart and its main function, and we established that heart disease is all the different things that can mess up the blood flow to the heart, the muscle of the heart, the valves, etc. So, let’s not spend time...
Let’s Talk About Heart Disease
Heart Disease I wanted to do some education on heart disease for us today. So I stole some facts from the CDC website about heart disease to start off with: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups...
Surprise! Covid Update!
Of course what else would we talk about this week? As the nation and my state continue to deal with Covid 19, I will give an update on some stuff that is changing/improving. First let's talk about masks. I dont really know why wearing masks has become so...
What holiday is today?
So I couldnt think of what to talk about today. That led me to think, "I wonder if there is an obscure holiday today?" and guess what? You got it. It's National Pink Day! So according to some research, pink was originally a neutral color not associated with sex. For a...
Vaccines are dangerous! Don’t you know that?!
So I speak about vaccines frequently to try and help dispel any confusion. Today I was on social media, and I saw a post about a doc wondering how to approach pts that don't want to vaccine their children or want to use a delayed schedule. The question had to do with...
Ear infections middle and outer Oh My!
Two main types of ear infections I want to teach you about today. Middle ear aka otitis media and outer ear aka otitis externa. Otitis media, middle ear, occurs most often in the winter but can be year round. It is typically from fluid backup into the middle ear from...
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