For the first half of my career as a heart surgeon, I was heading toward becoming one of my own patients. I had struggled with my weight since childhood. I became morbidly obese. My hemoglobin A1c reached 5.9, putting me in the pre-diabetic range. And despite spending my career treating people with advanced heart disease,
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Every day, I see patients with heart disease, or suspected of having it. And the most tragic thing is that many of them think it’s inevitable. Some are unaware of how lifestyle choices impact their risk, but others believe that their genetic makeup has doomed them to suffering from heart disease anyway and there’s no
Heart disease is a huge problem in the USA. Based on data from 2021, the CDC reports that: One person dies every 33 seconds to heart disease, which adds up to 695,000 Americans each year Heart disease accounts for 1 in every 5 deaths Heart disease costs the United States more than $239.9 billion per
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