by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 3, 2019 | Heart Health
See Daily Aspirin is Beneficial Primarily for People at High Risk for a Heart Attack Just about everyone agrees that aspirin helps to prevent heart attacks by keeping clots from forming, but a major side effect of daily aspirin is increased risk for bleeding. Almost...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 16, 2018 | Heart Health
Some research articles seem to warn people not to exercise too long or too hard, but the overwhelming scientific and epidemiological evidence is that vigorous exercise strengthens a healthy heart and helps to prevent heart disease. Elite endurance athletes who...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 2, 2018 | Heart Health
High blood pressure (greater than 130/90 before you go to bed at night) markedly increases risk for heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and premature death. Almost 50 percent of North American adults have high blood pressure, and it causes more than 80,000 U.S....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 25, 2018 | Heart Health
Being overweight is associated with having larger plaques in the arteries leading to the heart and a marked increase and progression of these arterial plaques that cause heart attacks, even if a person does not have the risk factors that predict increased risk for...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 18, 2018 | Heart Health
On November 10, 2018, heart specialists presented recommendations for preventing heart attacks from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association at the AHA’s 2018 Scientific Sessions in Chicago (J of the Am Coll of Card and the AHA journal,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 11, 2018 | Heart Health
Virtually all doctors agree that stents can save lives if used within three hours of the start of a heart attack. However, there is no good evidence that stents prevent heart attacks in people who have chest pain during exercise. The ORBITA study showed that in...
