Protect Your Heart: Three Tests You Need To Know About

This episode is personal. I always thought I was at low risk for a heart attack, but I was wrong. I want to share with you the story of how I found out I was at high risk. With this important information, hopefully you can learn how to protect your own heart.   Today's show will include information from Dr. Leslie Cho, Head of the Women's Heart Center at the Cleveland Clinic. She is an international expert who carries out research on women's heart health. If anyone knows how to protect our hearts, it's her.   We are now living in a time when access to medical information is becoming increasingly limited. Women's health websites are being taken down. The funding of research that includes women is being frozen.   My mission is now threefold: To continue to provide you with a space to hear women's stories and concerns To give you access to critical women's health information To process feedback from you in order to improve the podcast   Please feel free to send feedback to [email protected]. And please use "Heart Health" in the subject line.   Here are two references for today's show: Mesi O, Lin C, Ahmed H, and Cho L. Statin intolerance and new lipid-lowering treatments. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 2021, 88 (7) 381-387.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpc.2023.100579 Sukkari M, et al. Is there a benefit for aspirin therapy for primary prevention to reduce the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in patients with elevated Lipoprotein (a)––A review of the evidence. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 2023 Sep1; 15:100579.   https://www.ccjm.org/content/88/7/381 or for pdf  https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/88/7/381.full.pdf