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"We know, for example, that cardiologists who perform cardiac catheterization and angioplasty are more likely to recommend these procedures than are other cardiologists and primary care doctors?though all claim to be guided by the best evidence available. In my experience, doctors rarely recommend procedures simply to make more money, but like most people, they like to use their special skills to help others; this creates a predisposition to want to use the latest tests, drugs, and procedures (not to mention defend themselves against the ever-present risk of a malpractice suit)." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"I've had a number of patients who have been rushed, almost on a monthly basis, to the emergency room to be worked up by cardiologists because their heart was pounding over 200 beats a minute. cardiologists would do EKGs and echocardiograms and tell them to go see a psychiatrist who would work them up, not find anything, and then put them on an antidepressant or a tranquilizer, and actually make the condition worse." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The reason had to do with a skewing of the epidemiological data; while heart disease was on the rise in general, its incidence was particularly high among males who self-identified as white-collar managerial types—so much so that some cardiologists had taken to calling coronary heart disease the executive disease. Why might white-collar executives be more at risk than others? In the mid-1950s, San Francisco cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosen-man began to make the link to stress." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"We know, for example, that cardiologists who perform cardiac catheterization and angioplasty are more likely to recommend these procedures than are other cardiologists and primary care doctors?though all claim to be guided by the best evidence available. In my experience, doctors rarely recommend procedures simply to make more money, but like most people, they like to use their special skills to help others; this creates a predisposition to want to use the latest tests, drugs, and procedures (not to mention defend themselves against the ever-present risk of a malpractice suit)." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Even though we are cardiologists, we are also concerned about the arteries to the brain. The similarity between a heart attack and a stroke is this: both events are caused by arterial blockages or plaque rupture in a vital vessel. Usually a clot (thrombus) or a piece of plaque from somewhere in the body or in the immediate artery breaks off, lodging at a point where it cannot pass through. The blockage then cuts off the circulation, leading to oxygen deprivation of the tissue that the artery serves." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons are able to alter the blood supply of the heart with a remarkably low, though far from negligible, incidence of catastrophe. These practitioners find this low incidence acceptable. But let me again introduce the concept of Type II Medical Malpractice. Type I Medical Malpractice is familiar; medical or surgical performance is unacceptable. Type II Medical Malpractice is doing something to patients very well that was not needed in the first place. Type II Medical Malpractice is a scourge." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Even the most conservative of cardiologists were beginning to take home the message that remote healing might actually work after all, and that prayer in particular was good for the heart.5 Krucoff understood that for his results to be meaningful, the study needed to be replicated on a far larger scale." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"So why don't classically trained cardiologists recognize this? Why don't they flock to this message? They are obviously intelligent, well-educated people who have the best interests of their patients at heart. The answer is really quite simple: politics, money, and training. Major medical research is funded by drug companies; they also fund our meetings, and their advertising funds our professional journals. Nutritional therapies do not move the revenue needle for hospitals, doctors, research institutions, or the drug companies." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Pharmaceutical drugs, bypass surgery, angioplasty, stent emplacements, pacemakers, and implantable defibrillators all have their place, and many lives would be lost without these high-tech interventions. cardiologists face a daily dilemma concerning the best diagnostic procedures to recommend for their patients, and then, based on those test results, which surgical and/or pharmaceutical interventions to select." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Energy-sustaining nutrients that can recharge our batteries, like coenzyme Qiq, L-carnitine, D-ribose, and even the common mineral magnesium—provide physicians, especially cardiologists, with natural alternative tools that will help improve the quality of their patients' lives. By supporting the production of ATP, which provides the energy foundation of life, this "awesome foursome" of nutrients can also help those suffering from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, as well as athletes and weekend warriors." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"A 2004 article in the New York Times relates a "joke" among cardiologists that the benefits of statins are so great that they "should be added to the water supply." The article continues: Not only do statins greatly reduce cholesterol and lower mortality in people at risk for heart attacks, but some studies also suggest that they might help prevent or treat a wide range of ailments, including Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, bone fractures, some types of cancer, macular degeneration and glaucoma.'0 Quite a list." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Even after many years as cardiologists and being aware of the unusual symptoms displayed by many women, we still find that CAD in women can be confusing. New research also suggests that women may more often experience nonclassic symptoms of a stroke than men. Since symptoms can frequently be different and not the textbook presentation we quickly diagnose and treat in men, we encourage women to tune in to their intuition when they realize something is wrong. Act immediately. Avoid denial and don't rationalize symptoms." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Identifying and combating the latter type of plaque has become the number one priority of today's cutting-edge cardiologists. Indicative of a turnaround in thinking about the causes of CVD, the American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new recommendations for CVD screening in 2003 that included a test for CRP. Today you may see posters on laboratory walls with information for patients about this new and potentially life-saving blood test." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "We have been shocked many times by people who form plaques within six months. All cardiologists have seen this. That's the nature of coronary artery disease. It can be like a snowball rolling down the hill. It gathers bulk as it increases momentum. Stress can speed things up. For a cardiac patient, emotional stress is deadly. Blood vessels can spasm and tighten up, creating more deficiency to the heart. There could also be some lesser plaque that our diagnostics don't pick up—for example, 10 or 20 percent blockage—or the plaque can develop inside the wall where it can't be seen." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Despite the fact that cardiologists opened a blocked artery with a stent, for the next four and half months Rita continued to decline, at times feeling the horror of her body slipping away from life. When the doctors performed surgery again, they were surprised to find additional serious occlusions. At this point, emergency triple bypass surgery was performed, during which Rita came close to death. And, to make matters even more distressing, a new wrench was thrown into Rita's medical story. Doctors diagnosed her cardiovascular illness as a rare genetic disorder." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"In the 1980s, cardiologists had a low threshold for recommending 24-hour ambulatory heart monitor ("Holter monitor") tests. The purpose of these tests was to identify heart patients who were having irregular heartbeats that put them at increased risk of fatal arrhythmias—like the one Mr. Peters almost suffered. The criteria for starting an antiarrhythmic drug to suppress extra heartbeats were well established, and the degree to which the particular drug and dose had succeeded in suppressing each patient's extra heartbeats could be evaluated by repeating the 24-hour heart monitor test." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Virtually all cardiologists and primary care doctors who treat adults are familiar with these recommendations. But few have read the uninviting 284-page full-length version of the NCEP expert panel's report, available on the Internet. Most doctors probably figured it wasn't necessary. The summary assures its readers that the full document is "an evidence-based and extensively referenced report that provides the scientific rationale for the recommendations contained in the executive summary." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Integrative cardiologists are as comfortable prescribing diet and lifestyle changes, a vast array of nutritional therapies, and mind/body approaches as they are scheduling a treadmill stress test, recommending angioplasty and handing out a medication. They integrate the best of both worlds when caring for their patients. For example, in Chapter 2, you'll read about patients awaiting heart transplants—those with the most seriously compromised heart function—who are literally "cured" by nutritional therapies." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"His cardiologists, worried about the recurrence of angina, asked for more tests to see what was going on. On the day of his follow-up angiogram, I went to Dr. Crowe's office after work. After we greeted each other, I thought I saw moisture in his eyes. "Is everything OK?" I asked. "You saved my life," he declared. "It's gone! It's not there anymore! Something lethal is gone! My follow-up angiogram was normal." Nearly ten years later, Mary Lind recalled that they had wondered, that first evening at our house, "how the Esselstyns did it"— how we had managed to completely change the way we eat. " - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Over time, regular exercise also increases the efficiency of the cardiovascular system, lowering blood pressure. cardiologists have recently discovered that a hormone called atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), which is produced by muscle tissue in the heart, directly tempers the body's stress response by putting the brakes on the HPA axis and quelling noise in the brain. What's so interesting about ANP is that it increases as the heart rate increases during exercise, thus illustrating another pathway by which physical activity relieves both the feeling of stress and the body's response to it." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Interestingly, it was the cardiologists who spoke up. The NEJM published a letter from doctors Carl Lavie and Richard Milani of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans. It read, in part, that the author "discusses generalized anxiety disorder and its treatment with pharmacologic agents and psychotherapy. We are surprised, however, that there is no mention of exercise as an additional means of treating anxiety." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "The letter noted that cardiologists are interested in anxiety as a risk factor for heart problems, and then pointed out, "Exercise training has been shown to lead to reductions of more than 50 percent in the prevalence of the symptoms of anxiety. This supports exercise training as an additional method to reduce chronic anxiety." The letter was a polite way of saying that the original article missed the boat. Lavie has written more than seventy papers on exercise and the heart, eleven of which focus on anxiety." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "The importance of this exchange is that it's a case of cardiologists ("real" doctors) taking psychiatrists to task about how to treat the whole patient. If we go all the way back to Hippocrates, the wisdom of the day was that emotions come from the heart and that that's where treatment should start for maladies of mood. Modern medicine has separated mind and body, but it turns out that, in a very concrete way, Hippocrates had it right from the start. Just in the past ten years scientists have begun to understand how a molecule that originates in the heart plays on our emotions." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"In the 1980s, when women with these reactive hearts also reported having symptoms of fatigue, chest discomfort, and feeling worse after exertion or after standing, they were usually referred to cardiologists to be sure they didn't have heart disease. Such women received the diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse, a condition where blood sometimes backs up in the heart due to a malfunctioning heart valve. However, advances in cardiac imaging made it clear that these women did not have any heart abnormalities." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "They were no longer given unnecessary referrals to cardiologists, but unfortunately they were instead left to fend for themselves. They were among the many classes of patients who fell through the cracks of classical medicine. In the late 1990s, this reactive heart problem was given a new name: postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS. I touched upon this issue in chapter 9. Translated into English, POTS is the syndrome of excessive heart rate acceleration after a person goes from the lying to the standing posture, and it is age-related." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"In the summer of 2001 three cardiologists at the Cleveland Clinic, one of the top heart centers in the nation, reported that they had found that both Vioxx and Celebrex appeared to increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. The three doctors focused more of their concern on Vioxx, however. In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they explained that the overall risk of heart attack when taking the drugs was low." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Even interventional cardiologists are beginning to question the rationale of their procedures. In 1999, cardiologist David Waters of the University of California performed a study that compared the results of angioplasty—in which a balloon is inserted into a coronary artery to widen the vessel and improve blood flow—with the use of drugs to aggressively reduce serum cholesterol levels. There was no disputing the outcome." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Indeed, in their enthusiasm for statins and other drugs, some cardiologists advocate the development of a "polypill" that would include a statin, a beta-blocker, aspirin, and maybe an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. The idea is that everyone, even those considered normal, would take a polypill to prevent heart disease. Pfizer is one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world largely because of the success of Lipitor, its best-selling drug." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"So by mutual agreement, I returned them to their cardiologists for standard care with the understanding that I would periodically check to see how they were doing. But the rest stuck with the program. They ranged in age from forty-three to sixty-seven years old. And they represented a spectrum of the community. They were factory workers, teachers, office employees, company executives. Each approached the program in his or her own way." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

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