Doctor’s Heart Attack
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Doctor’s Heart Attack
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#2Unique perspective from the lens of the Physician as a patient
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#3I have had two people 40's and 50's die recently from heart attacks. I wonder if these days can you get like a secondary artificial heart on purpose. I imagine there is a space problem, maybe it could be placed elsewhere like in the guts but idk... My side of the family all died out from heart problems and I'm in line/too stupid to stop eating salt.
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#4I have had two people 40's and 50's die recently from heart attacks. I wonder if these days can you get like a secondary artificial heart on purpose. I imagine there is a space problem, maybe it could be placed elsewhere like in the guts but idk... My side of the family all died out from heart problems and I'm in line/too stupid to stop eating salt.
The disease is more common than we think.
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#5Great write up. In your case, sounds like risk factors were relatively minor, but your blockage was severe - do you know of any efforts to increase proactive use of cardiac PET or other scans? I understand the typical stress test isn't indicated before other symptoms manifest.
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#6Great write up. In your case, sounds like risk factors were relatively minor, but your blockage was severe - do you know of any efforts to increase proactive use of cardiac PET or other scans? I understand the typical stress test isn't indicated before other symptoms manifest.
Thanks. I have implemented more detailed lab testing and coronary calcium scoring based on the risk level and metabolic disease. Unfortunately unless we look deep and harder we can miss it especially in south Asians which tend to die very young due to coronary disease.
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#7For those interested in a deeper dive into heart disease, the Peter Attia Drive podcast from last week has a great summary of root causes, tests, and prevention.
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#8Dr Ronesh Sinha wrote an excellent book “The South Asian Health solution” which has some very good recommendations for diets. I highly recommend that book.
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#9There must be major genetic component to heart attacks. They run in some families, and, as the article says, being South Asian is in itself higher risk.
Then there are the counterexamples. My grandma ate like pig (as a kid, I couldn't even tolerate the smell of some foods she enjoyed), was fat for most of her life, her blood lipids were all over the place, she never exercised and died of cancer aged 90 with negligible levels of atherosclerosis. Something in her genetic(?) makeup protected her from the consequences.
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#10There must be major genetic component to heart attacks. They run in some families, and, as the article says, being South Asian is in itself higher risk. Then there are the counterexamples. My grandma ate like pig (as a kid, I couldn't even tolerate the smell of some foods she enjoyed), was fat for most of her life, her blood lipids were all over the place, she never exercised and died of cancer aged 90 with negligibl…
What did she eat? There's a massive difference between gorging in meat and vegetables or donuts and fries. Not all food is the same.