Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer
eBook - ePub

Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer

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eBook - ePub

Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer

About this book

A new approach to understanding, preventing, and treating heart disease to empower you and your loved ones to live long and healthy lives.

The main cause of heart disease—the world's number one killer of women and men—is a cancer-like "tumor" inside the coronary arteries that keep our hearts beating. Although this similarity to cancer is well-established in medical journals, most people (and their health care providers) don't approach heart disease as seriously as cancer, even though it's just as deadly. In Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer, cardiologist Michael McConnell shares the stories of his family, patients, and research to lay out a modern and effective approach to preventing, screening for, and treating heart disease like cancer to avoid its dire consequences.

Dr. McConnell highlights the latest research on the substantial overlap between heart disease and cancer, from shared risk factors to screening for early detection to new and powerful therapies. In accessible language, and with personal perspectives from his daughters Mia and Kelly, he explains

• how heart disease grows in similar ways to cancer
• how to screen for early heart disease
• prevention techniques that incorporate both a heart-healthy lifestyle and medical help when needed
• simple and powerful therapies to reverse heart disease and prevent heart attacks and strokes
• digital health technologies, including wearable devices and artificial intelligence, that broaden access for detecting and monitoring heart disease

Dr. McConnell, through his work with the American Heart Association and the National Fitness Foundation, also highlights the many ways our society can reduce heart disease for all. Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer will guide you step-by-step on how to prevent, screen for, and treat heart disease to live a healthier and longer life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Straight Talk: Heart Disease Is Like Cancer, Only Worse
  8. Chapter 2 How Did We Get Here?
  9. Chapter 3 Learning from Cancer in My Family and Myself
  10. Chapter 4 Understanding Your Heart and Its Vulnerability
  11. Chapter 5 How Can “Tumors” Cause Heart Attacks?
  12. Chapter 6 Beyond “Tumors” in the Heart
  13. Chapter 7 Cancer and Heart Disease Intertwined
  14. Chapter 8 Prevention over Imaging
  15. Chapter 9 Prevent Like It’s Cancer
  16. Chapter 10 Screen Like It’s Cancer
  17. Chapter 11 Treat Like It’s Cancer
  18. Chapter 12 Treating Cancer and Heart Disease Can Overlap
  19. Chapter 13 Digital Health and AI to the Rescue?
  20. Chapter 14 The Bigger Picture
  21. Chapter 15 My Next (Work) Chapter
  22. Chapter 16 My Next (Life) Chapter
  23. Conclusion
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. References
  26. Index