Preventative Cardiology

What is preventive cardiology?

Preventive cardiology helps you avoid serious heart problems and premature death from heart attacks and strokes.   

Everyone at Nader Cardiology recognizes and promotes the importance of preventive cardiology. Many heart disease risk factors are preventable and controllable, including:

• High-fat diet
• Lack of exercise
• Excessive stress
• Smoking
• Recreational drug use
• Obesity

Preventive cardiology provides you with invaluable information about how your lifestyle affects your heart. Your provider at Nader Cardiology helps you address any problems you have to improve your heart health.

Your preventive cardiology assessment begins with a comprehensive physical exam. Your cardiologist checks your vital signs, including heart rate and pulse, listens to your heart and lungs for abnormal sounds, and checks your breathing. After your initial evaluation, your cardiologist decides what further tests would be beneficial.

What preventive cardiology tests might I need?

Preventive cardiology involves having a variety of tests to screen for heart abnormalities or dysfunction. Preventive screenings include:

• Blood pressure measurement
• Blood glucose evaluation
• Cholesterol test
• Doppler ultrasound
• Electrocardiogram (EKG)
• Ankle-brachial index (ABI) test

These tests look at your heart function and how well blood flows to and from your heart and around your body. Information from the screening tests helps your cardiologist identify your cardiovascular disease risks.

If they find any problems, they perform additional procedures. These could include an echocardiogram (ultrasound of your heart), nuclear stress testing, and wearing a Holter or event monitor.

Genetic testing is becoming increasingly useful too. It can help identify genes that increase your risk of heart disease.

How does preventive cardiology improve my heart health?

A preventive cardiology screening gives you the motivation to act before you develop a serious heart condition. Everyone knows that excess body weight, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol increase the chance you’ll develop health problems. But it’s often easier to ignore the problem than make an effort to change.

Preventive cardiology helps give you a push, so you make healthier lifestyle choices. Your cardiologist at Nader Cardiology provides you with the information and tools you need to change to a heart-healthy lifestyle.

If their investigations highlight any heart or circulation problems, your cardiologist can treat the condition before it worsens. That might involve taking medications that stop your blood from clotting too readily or lower your cholesterol. Or you might need to undergo an interventional cardiology procedure like balloon angioplasty.

To benefit from expert preventive cardiology and live a longer, healthier life, call Nader Cardiology today or book an appointment online.