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Johns Hopkins Health Alerts Heart Health: Coronary Heart Disease

  • Potentially life-saving information on the risk factors associated with coronary heart disease and the proven strategies for preventing a heart attack

  • New guidelines to reduce cholesterol

Most heart attacks result from coronary heart disease, a condition characterized by a progressive narrowing of the coronary arteries. Over the past four decades scientists and physicians have identified many risk factors for coronary heart disease, and a recent study found that 90% of Americans who have a heart attack have at least one of the major risk factors for heart disease.

Some of the risk factors for coronary heart disease—such as getting older or being male—cannot be changed. But a number of risk factors for coronary heart disease can be modified.

This area of Johns Hopkins Health Alerts provides potentially life-saving information on the risk factors associated with coronary heart disease and the proven strategies for preventing a heart attack. These strategies are also recommended for managing heart disease once it’s been diagnosed.

Experts from Hopkins also explain the latest advances in medications, angioplasty, and bypass surgery for treating heart disease; new guidelines to lower cholesterol; and the latest screening and diagnostic tests that can detect a heart-related problem before a heart attack occurs.

Heart Health Topics:

Cholesterol

Coronary Heart Disease

Heart Attack


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Johns Hopkins Weekly Podcasts: Each podcast is a lively discussion of the week's medical news and how it may affect you. Each ten to twelve-minute free program features Rick Lange, M.D., chief of clinical cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Elizabeth Tracey, director of the Hopkins Health NewsFeed, a radio news service program at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Johns Hopkins Podcast: Weekly Program, and Archive


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