Cardiologist David Greenberg, MD: Preventing heart disease this Valentine’s Day quoting : Gazette

"My father died of a heart attack nine months after I got married, and my wife's father died of a heart attack three days after we got married. "I believe the best intervention for the treatment of patients with heart disease is prevention," said David Greenberg, MD, cardiologist since 1976. Heart disease is the number one killer in America, and the American Heart Association's goal is to reduce the disease 20 percent by 2020. Greenberg notes that it is also important for both men and women – particularly women – to be screened early on for heart disease and symptoms of heart disease. "Seeing my patients alive and well 25 years after their heart attack or after coronary bypass surgery really feels good.




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Excess belly fat linked to diabetes, heart disease

The new findings give "considerably more weight" to the evidence that excess belly fat, by itself, contributes to diabetes and heart disease, he said. The findings do not prove that shedding belly fat would cut a person's risk of diabetes or heart disease, Smith pointed out. This new research suggests that people who carry weight at the belly tend to have higher rates of diabetes and heart disease. The American Heart Association has more on weight and heart disease. It's still possible, he said, that the genes that contribute to abdominal obesity also feed the development of diabetes and heart disease -- through mechanisms other than extra belly fat.

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