CHAPTER 1, Who’s winning the battle for your arteries?

CHAPTER 2, Who’s minding the store?

Failure of physicians to reach their own standards

CHAPTER 3, Heredity

You have inherited heart disease

What specifically has been inherited?

I won’t make 50

Exercise and diet

An important distinction

But my doctor said my cholesterol is normal

CHAPTER 4, Cholesterol, The Good, the bad and the ugly

220 cholesterol causes heart attacks

150 an ideal cholesterol level

Supporting drug therapy

Triglycerides and HDL

High triglycerides, 300% greater risk

The ratio of triglycerides to HDL was the strongest predictor of  H/A

Fuel to the fire

Heart attack triology,  predictor of a triple threat

Triglyceride spiking

Holiday feasts and heart attacks

How to neutralize the “spike”

Lowring triglycerides and raising HDL

Niacin and triglyceride/HDL therapy

HDL and stroke

The Japanese and cholesterol

Can cholesterol levels actually become too low?

Is low cholesterol causing serious illness?

CHAPTER 5,  Heart disease begins in a child’s teenage years

A serious risk to children

Therapy for youngsters with (HeFH)

SUMMARY

CHAPTER 6,  Argument for earlier drug intervention

The impressive newly discovered benefits of statins

CHAPTER 7, Plaques that burst like fireworks

Vital Information, one of the major causes of heart attack

Intravascular Ultrasound Defines Plaque Type

How important is this plaque information for the patient?

CHAPTER 8,  Fictional reality, applying the new information

For the record

Regression Studies

CHAPTER 9, An author’s journey

The long and winding road

The good news bad news scenario

Where to go from here?

Cause and effect

CHAPTER 10, There are no routine surgeries

Second EBCT Scan Result

Third EBCT Scan

Arteriosclerosis/Athrerosclerosis

Antioxidants

Lutein and heart disease

CHAPTER 11, Crunching the numbers

The grim statistics from the American Heart Association

CHAPTER 12, Stroke Numbers

Fictional reality, applying the new information

For the record

CHAPTER 13, Do you need to become so involved?

Doctor’s demanding schedules

The crisis of the toos

CHAPTER 14, Identifying hidden H/A and stroke risk factors

Risk factor #1

C-reactive protein, “Read em and weep”

An increased five fold risk

CRP and a woman’s risk

C-reactive protein and angina.

Sudden death and CRP

Gum disease and CRP

CRP and claudication

The total evaluation

CHAPTER 15,  Women and heart disease

 The mis-information

American heart association’s findings affecting women

The greater risk to black women

Women, smoking and birth control

Women and LDL cholesterol

LDL particle size as added risk

CHAPTER 16, The silent infections unmasked, CMV, C. pneumonaie, herpex simplex and H. pylori

Chlamydia pneumonaie  risk factor #II

Is coronary artery disease an infectious disease?

Antibodies

Antibodies can eliminate C.P

Success eliminating infections

How long has C.P been suspect in Heart disease?

Ace Inhibitors
The Hope trial
The Ramipril study results

CHAPTER 40, Diuretics verses other blood pressure meds.
Common classes of hypertensive drugs

CHAPTER 17, Homocysteine risk factor III

How high is high?

The good news

To test or not to test?

Heavy coffee and meat consumers raise homocysteine

VISP vitamin intervention for stroke prevention trial

The silent stroke epidemic

Homocysteine: accelerated stroke risk when moderately elevated

A silent stroke epidemic

Mildly elevated homocysteine cause 11 million strokes per year

The negative 50% association between niacin and homocysteine

The homocysteine beginning,

Redemption

How it works

Alzheimer’s/homocysteine  link

A large study with astounding implications

Hardening of the arteries

Homocysteine and cancer

High homocysteine implicated in women’s stroke risk

Same as smoking a pack a day

CHAPTER 18, Bypass surgery

Identifying the problem

The message, don’t require bypass

All is not gold

The fight to fix the heart-lung machine problem

Medical misdiagnosis and error

The future is here

An alternative to bypass

How EECP works

CHAPTER 19, Gum disease, the link to heart disease

A confirming study

Summary

The remedy

Stroke risk visible in dental x-rays

 CHAPTER 20, 50,000 people per year die “routinely” from infections acquired in the hospital

Superbugs

Falling on deaf ears

The message, early preventive cardiology to avoid major surgery

Subclass dysfunction hides within HDL and LDL

CHAPTER 21. LP (a) Inherited risk factor III

CHAPTER 22, An actual case history, applying the new information

Patient’s second surgery

Undetected causes

Reading the tea leaves

The patient’s test results, test I

Patient’s test II

Patient’s test III

The C.p test results

Patient’s test IV, C-reactive protein

Neutralizing the 5 dysfunctions

A non-drug cholesterol fighter

 CHAPTER 23, Life affecting benefits of tea you haven’t heard 

Take tea and see

Summary

CHAPTER 24  Sounds fishy: Omega 3

Take these statistics to heart

Depression, Bipolar disease and omega 3

Fish eaters reduce their risk by 29%

More significant proof

Long known benefits

Proof positive for those with ha

The study results

 CHAPTER 25, Making the case against fibrinogen

Inflammatory risk factor IV

High fibrinogen an 85% risk of heart disease

An eight fold added risk for recurrent heart attacks

Fibrinogen and aortic atherosclerosis

Fibrinogen may determine the actual size

How specific fibrinogen levels inflict damage in individual arteries

Strongest predictor

6.1 Times increased h/a risk

Fibrinosis, inherited function

Edinburgh artery study

Fibrinogen further evidence

Further evidence substantiating

Women’s risk with high fibrinogen.

Will my statins lower fibrinogen?

Fibrinogen as a stress protein

He’s working himself to death

Socioeconomic influences

Fibrinogen and LDL Particle Size

Natural and Drug Therapy

Infections and high fibrinogen.

Corroborative evidence

Fibrinogen and calcification

Search for a remedy

Summary

CHAPTER 26, Combination therapy

Don’t raise the water, lower the bridge

You can’t win a war with just air support

Multiple drug therapy results

The study findings

Regression or pie in the sky?

Regression probability

 CHAPTER 27 Aneurysm

Copper and aneurysm

Aneurysms are often inherited and do run in families

A case history of inheritance

Copper and aneurysm

 CHAPTER 28, Smoking a controllable risk factor

Smoking still number one risk factor

Women, stroke and that lethal cigarette

How quickly can a young person become addicted to smoking?

Women smokers

Cigars, acute impairment

CHAPTER 29, Diabetes a destructive  alliance

Diabetes and syndrome X

Insulin resistance

CHAPTER 30,  Physical exertion and M/I’s

Early morning heart attacks

 CHAPTER 31, Anger

Temper, hostility, anger, major risk factor withheld or released

Women and anger

Women’s risk with suppressed anger

Aspirin and anger

 CHAPTER 32, Angioplasty is not without risk 

CHAPTER 33, Cytomegalovirus, inflammatory risk factor

CMV and diabetes

Women and CMV

What is considered high?

CHAPTER 34, Deep vein thrombosis
Blood clots do kill airline passengers
Australia weighs in with similar findings
The troponins, lifesaving blood tests

SUMMARY
CHAPTER 35, sudden cardiac death among young people

Heart attacks among young athletes

One family’s tragedy
 

CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 36, Framingham, the gold standard study

CHAPTER 37 Snoring and sleep apnea
When small children snore

CHAPTER 38, Matters of the heart
Heart block, cardiac arrest, ventrical dysfunction, atrial fibrillation, heart failure and sudden death
The causes
The “Widow Marker”
Heart valve disease
Your amazing heart
The heart’s construction

CHAPTER 39,

CHAPTER 41, Congestive heart failure (an epidemic)

Heart failure its cause

How HF affects one’s life

CHAPTER 42, Supplements that improve heart function
The Japanese, first to recognize
Coenzyme Q 10 found deficient among heart failure patients
Ejection Fraction: Undeniable evidence
Statin drugs inhibit Coenzyme levels
Coenzyme Q10 and cardiomyopathy
Q10 and B6 production decrease with age
When medical therapy for heart failure fails
Natural  treatment for congestive heart failure
55.6% Quality of life improvement
Additional benefit
Worthy opponents convinced
Absolutely amazing Q10 results
L-Carnitine
Hawthorn

CHAPTER 43, L-Arginine and nitric oxide, major players

Oxidation, Free radical and LDL

Additional benefits from L-arginine

Taurine

Bilberry

On the horizon for HF patients

CHAPTER 44, Implantable mechanical pacemakers
The demand pacemaker
Today’s new technology
A pacer for atrial fibrillation
Tradycardia

CHAPTER 45, Clots cause of 89-90% of heart and stroke attacks
The clot, the clot, the clot
Thinking outside the box
Northwick Park Study
Pathological factors
An author’s journey, (part two continued)
The collective test results
Treatment
Tunnel vision
Creative thinking

SUMMARY
CHAPTER 46, Life Extension’s optimal range scale

CHAPTER 47, Iron

Better to give than to receive

88% reduced risk among blood donors

An inherited defective gene

“Iron gene” mutation identified

Red meat, the main culprit

Anemia from too little iron
 

 CHAPTER 48, The oscar goes to the best drug in 100 years

Aspirin and ovarian cancer

On the downside, Reyes Syndrome

Still and all there is a risk

Why aspirin may not always stop heart attacks

Aspirin and recurrent strokes

CHAPTER 49, Arterial spasms

CHAPTER 50, Even non-fat dairy clogs arteries
The value of treadmill exams
What did Michael Milkin learn about early testing?
Without finding  hidden cause,  destruction continues

CHAPTER 51,  Distinct differences between  fats
The good fats
Bad fats
Very bad fats

CHAPTER 52, Alternative medicine
 

CHAPTER 53 Go figure, a drink could save your life!

CHAPTER 54, A physical fit for a king

Poor man’s physical

The King’s physical

Appointment with Dr. Feelgood

CHAPTER 55,  Removing heart disease from it’s # 1 position