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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Section I HEART HEALTH AND DISEASE: THE BASICS THAT YOU MUST KNOW
1 Saving your life
2 Coronary heart disease: The risk factors you know and those you don’t
3 Cholesterol: Friend and foe
4 Your weight and your heart: How extra pounds create excess risk
Section II A PLAN FOR PREVENTION
5 Food for the heart
6 Red wine and your heart: A drink a day may keep the cardiologist away
7 Exercise and your heart: Which type and how much?
8 Emotion and your heart: You can be scared to death
9 How to tell fact from fiction: Sorting through the medical evidence
10 Which heart tests do you need?
Section III FIXING THE BROKEN HEART
11 Medicines for the heart: The big six
12 Stents versus surgery for coronary heart disease: To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail
13 A chance to cut is a chance to cure: What you need to know before heart surgery
14 You’ve got the beat: Keeping your heart in rhythm
15 Living with heart failure
16 Vitamins and supplements: Trick or treatment?
Section IV PERSONAL PLANS
17 The mysteries of Venus: Understanding the hearts of women
18 Heart disease in men: It is all partly about sex
19 Heart disease in kids: Prevention starts now!
Section V LOOKING FORWARD
20 Heart health (and repair) in the future: Star Trek , here we come!
21 Epilogue: Putting heart doctors out of business
Acknowledgments
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