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Cardiovascular health : how conventional wisdom is failing us
by Jay N Cohn
We all think we are well-informed about cardiovascular health. But is what we think we know really accurate? Here, a renowned cardiologist describes the biological processes leading to heart and blood vessel disease. He challenges the conventional view that risk factors, poor diet, and lack of exercise are the biggest culprits. Each of these widely-described risk factors is individually discussed and Dr. Cohn concludes that their role in affecting cardiovascular health is often overstated. He promotes a greater emphasis on an individual's personal and largely inherited cardiovascular health by simple assessment of the function and structure of the arteries and heart. By identifying early disease likely to progress he advocates for early intervention, often with drug therapy, to slow disease progression and prevent symptoms of cardiovascular disease.
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Heart health : a guide to the tests and treatments you really need
by Jignesh Shah
"In the absence of good, trustworthy information, patients are guided mostly by their fear instincts when diagnosed with heart disease. With the misperception that more is better, they all too often end up agreeing to undergo every test and treatment recommendation of their harried healthcare provider, who could well be influenced by accepted norms, cognitive biases, medicolegal concerns, or economic considerations. All this leads to gross overuse of cardiac procedures, even when the risks of test and treatment can be worse than the disease itself. In this book, Dr. J Shah explains the various cardiac tests and treatments, including situations in which they are critical, others in which they are reasonable, and yet others in which they could be unnecessary and even harmful.
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The man who touched his own heart : true tales of science, surgery, and mystery
by Rob R. Dunn
The author tells the story of the human heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgerieswhich had to be completed in three minutes before death arrivedto heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. 20,000 first printing.
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The matter of the heart : a history of the heart in eleven operations
by Thomas Neil Gareth Morris
In 11 landmark operations, the author shows the evolution of the heart surgery from the trail-blazing "blue baby" procedure that transformed wheezing infants into healthy children to the first human heart transplant to the first artificial heart and more.
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The open heart club : a story about birth and death and cardiac surgery
by Gabriel Brownstein
Part history of the heart and cardiac medicine, part memoir, the author, who was born with a congenital heart defect at the time where doctors where learning to operate on conditions like his, ponders the issues of mortality empathy and the things that make us human. 25,000 first printing.
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Pump : a natural history of the heart
by Bill Schutt
"Zoologist Bill Schutt delivers a look at hearts from across the animal kingdom, from insects to whales to humans. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings"
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