📗 Libro en inglés FIGHT HEART DISEASE LIKE CANCER

A new approach to understanding preventing and treating heart disease to empower you and your loved ones to live long and healthy lives The main cause of heart disease the world s number one killer of women and men is a cancer like tumor inside the coronary arteries that keep our hearts beating Although this similarity to cancer is well established in medical journals most people and their health care providers don t approach heart disease as seriously as cancer even though it s just as deadly In Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer cardiologist Michael McConnell shares the stories of his family patients and research to lay out a modern and effective approach to preventing screening for and treating heart disease like cancer to avoid its dire consequences Dr McConnell highlights the latest research on the substantial overlap between heart disease and cancer from shared risk factors to screening for early detection to new and powerful therapies In accessible language and with personal perspectives from his daughters Mia and Kelly he explains how heart disease grows in similar ways to cancer how to screen for early heart disease prevention techniques that incorporate both a heart healthy lifestyle and medical help when needed simple and powerful the