Factor-4, Diabetes Impaired glucose control or diabetes. This has been a very important factor for the heart attack. Usually when we have impaired glucose control or we have diabetes, we have a group of symptoms in which we put them…
Factor-3, Psychosocial Stressors Psychosocial stressors. In other words, our mental health. It is very important for our heart. We may be depressed. Yes, it is a risk factor. We may get angry, Yes, a risk factor for our heart. We…
Think about it I got a case in the hospital where my patient was suffering from diabetes. On probing further, he said that he smoked almost one packet of cigarette every day. He said that he had started smoking when…
CT Angiogram What is the most important information you want from CT angiogram? We already have huge information from EKG and ultrasound which can be very comforting, but fact is none of these tests tells us the blood supply of…
2-D Echocardiogram/Ultrasound of the heart What is the most important thing you want to know from the echocardiogram? One thing which is very obvious, we all want to know what our Ejection Fraction is. Ejection means- what you kick out…
ECG or EKG Bottom line is what do we exactly want to know from EKG or what is the most important things we want to know from EKG? Same thing, what do we want to know from echocardiogram or ultrasound…
Factor-1, Cholesterol Do we have “good Cholesterol” too Yes we do “ Good Cholesterol” Or “ HDL”Or “ High density Lipoprotein” is good cholesterol. But while there are medicines to keep “ bad. There are no medicines yet to increase…
Actually, There has been dramatic research in diabetes because diabetes literally affects everybody. Everybody seems to have diabetes these days! My whole family has, Everybody has diabetes in my family, and it is becoming more and more common. There are…