Did you know that almost 80 percent of heart disease is preventable? Following simple, daily tips can make us healthier. Please join experts from Mayo Clinic, the American Heart Association and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease for an American Heart Month chat Feb. 13 on Twitter. The chat will be moderated by Alice Park, a staff writer at TIME magazine who reports on the latest in health and medicine.
The chat is Wednesday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. ET at #heartchat.
Please tweet your questions and join the discussion!
Experts taking part include:
_ Martha Grogan, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and medical editor-in-chief of Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life!
_ Stephen Kopecky, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist who focuses on prevention. Dr. Kopecky is president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology.
_ The American Heart Association.
_ Annabelle Volgman, M.D., a cardiologist and director of the Women’s Heart Center at Rush University and a member of the WomenHeart Scientific Advisory Committee.
We will discuss the latest research and offer simple steps to prevent heart disease in children, women and men.
on 18th July 2011, my gp examined me because i was breathless, he sent me straight to a&e and they admitted me, my heart beat was 180 beats a min, and I was very swollen in legs and tummy with excess fluids, to cut a long story short i was admitted for 4 days, given various scans and tests and drugs, then released, i was told i had AF and my LVEF OF 25% i have no evidence of abstructive sleep apnoea or central sleep apnoea. My echo cardiogram showed severe dilatation of the right atrium and globally impaired left ventricular function. i also had irregular heart rhythm. They took me off Ramipril due to the severe cough it gave me, there is no history of asthma, copd, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack or stroke in the family. I have no bladder or bowel problems. I have never smoked. I consumer the average alcohol intake which is safe to take. I suffer from right hip arthritis which is 60% good, although it severely restricts my mobility, injections do help slightly.
I had a cardioversion carried out on me on 21st August 2012 my heart rate was 55/min with a blood pressure of 106/70mmHg. on 14th Sept 2012 i underwent a 24 hour heart beat monitor they say my sinus rhythm remains the same, with a heart rate ranging from between 46-89bpm with several extra beats, some of them happening in alternating fashion or one in three fasion (bigeminy or trigeminy) one episode happened in runs of 4 beats.
My current medication is as follows:-
1mg warfarin, 1 25mg spironolactone, 1 40mg Simvastatin, 2 16mg Candesartan cilexetil, 1 4mg Candesartan cilexetil, 2 40mg Furosemide, 1 10mg Bisoprolol Fumarate, Even thou the heart consultant has only seen me once in 18months, she has decided to discharge me and send me out to the community heart failure nurse who wanted me in november 2012 to come off the warfarin, but my gp said NO way, i must stay on it. I feel i had to write, because I feel I am not getting the attention from the professional medical profession, your advise please
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I am the image editor for the book Connect: Design for an Empathic Society.
This book is about designing for a society that is ageing. Commissioned by the publisher BIS, Amsterdam (NL), author: Sabine Wildevuur, Dick van Dijk e.a. Print run: 1500 copies, non-commercial.
The authors would like to use the picture above (http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/files/2013/02/1200690_83-Primary-MSS_581164-Revision-1.jpg) as an image in the book. I would like to ask your permission to use this picture.
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Thank you in advance and kind regards,
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Hello Floreska and thanks for your comment. We will look into this for you and respond soon. Thank you.