Heart Health

Knowing what heart tests and treatments are best for you is essential to a healthy heart and mitigating the consequences of heart disease once acquired. Here, Dr. Jignesh Shah walks readers through cardiac health and disease prevention and explains which tests and treatments are vital and which are typically unnecessary.

J Shah is a board-certified cardiologist and a trained epidemiologist. He was trained at Harvard Medical School and has practiced in various countries and diverse settings over the past 20 years. He is passionate about patient experience of healthcare and hopes to bring human elements back to medicine. When he is not seeing patients, he is writing, traveling or hiking. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Introduction: Why Do I Need This Book? 1. Stress Test: What's Good for the Goose Good for the Gander? 2. Cardiac Catheterization: That's Our Protocol 3. Angioplasty: It's Not Killing You! 4. Bypass Surgery: A Second Opinion 5. Supplements, the Internet, and Heart Monitors: The Customer Has the Controls 6. Pacemakers: A Surefire Spark? 7. Defibrillator: Many Get It, Some Need It 8. Ablation: Curing Your Rhythm Problems 9. The Way Forward: The Home-Care Solution to Health Care Epilogue: Heart-to-Heart Notes Bibliography Index About the Author