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Scientific factors in our diets and lifestyles influence our risk of cardiovascular disease, and what's good for our hearts also tends to be good for our guts, our brains, livers, and weight control, reduces our risk of many forms of cancer, and even helps us to age well. Dr Joanna McMillan cuts through the nonsense, bust the myths and misconceptions, and provides insights from the extraordinary science of lifestyle medicine to help you take pleasure and joy in eating and living well so you can give and get more from life.

Nine million Americans are touched by aneurysms during their lifetimes. This is one story of love. Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery. It is a journey of love and devotion and a clash of medical beliefs and countercultures.

Heart disease is the number-one killer in the world. Despite ever-advancing medical procedures and more powerful pharmaceutical drugs, the rate of heart disease continues to rise. According to Dr. Stephen Hussey, this is due in part to misunderstandings about how the heart really functions and how to keep it healthy. These misunderstandings result in improper medical approaches and off-target intervention therapies.

Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain. Although at times he clashed with the medical establishment in London, Yacoub pioneered great advances in heart surgery. He was knighted in 1992, and in 2014, he was awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Queen, the Order of Merit.

In 2006, more than 600,000 Americans - 26 percent of all deaths in the US that year - died of heart disease, making it our nation's number one killer. Now, Mayo Clinic provides a comprehensive, step-by-step plan to reduce the risks and life-changing effects of heart disease. In Mayo Clinic Healthy Heart for Life!, the Mayo Clinic provides up-to-date, clinically proven information that addresses the key causes of heart disease and provides clear, actionable advice in an easy-to-follow format.

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The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor’s heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heart-stopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair and cardiac arrest.

Herzerkrankungen sind die häufigste Todesursache bei Frauen. Daher ist die Tatsache, dass kardiologische Medizin hauptsächlich auf Forschung an Männern beruht, alarmierend! Denn die Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern sind zu groß, als dass man die bei Männern erzielten Ergebnisse bei der Diagnostik und Behandlung von Frauen heranziehen könnte. Die Folge sind falsche Therapien, ratlose Ärzte, frustrierte und schlimmstenfalls gefährdete Patientinnen. Die renommierte Medizinerin Angela Maas klärt über die Besonderheiten des weiblichen Herzkreislaufs auf.

Whether you want to (1) prevent heart disease, (2) learn how to treat various heart ailments, or (3) gain all the benefits of a healthy heart, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know.