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NJ Preventive Cardiology practice brochure
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The Million Hearts
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For Physicians:
Practical Tips for
Clinicians
For Communities:
Heart2Heart Talk
For Employers and Employees:
You and Health Reform
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| | Every year, 1,255,000 Americans are stricken by heart attack. Many had no prior symptoms. Advances in medical science can help physicians indentify these patients at risk many years before a heart attack occurs and effective preventive treatment implemented early. 
Updated 2009 AHA Heart Attack Statistics 785,000 Americans will have a new heart attack 470,000 will have a recurrent heart attack 195,00 will have a silent heart attack Largest single killer of American males and females 15 years - the estimated average number of years lost due to heart attack People who survive the acute stage of a heart attack have a chance of illness or death that's 1.5 to 15 times higher than the general population - therefore, become higher utilizers of healthcare resources. Operations and procedures in 2006 - 1,313,000 inpatient coronary percutaneous interventions (stent) - 448,000 heart bypass - 1,115,000 inpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterizations - 773,000 hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome
You Tube Patient Mentoring Series: 1. How Plaques in the Arteries Develop Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAWbG1KnuA 2. How Statin Medications Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZnkvAajAE 3. How Effective is Evidenced-based Medical Therapy in Preventing Heart Attack and Stroke Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovIueGYC_U
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Emil M. deGoma, MD, FACC
Medical Director,
UPenn Preventive
Cardiovascular Program
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Lower your risk for heart attack and stroke
using evidence-based therapies and become
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2014.
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Prevention and Wellness Summary Provisions
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We Support
Million Hearts Initiative
497,470 Preventable CHD Deaths
Annually with
Evidence-based Medical Therapy
JAMA: 38% of Nonacute
Stents Called into Question
Optimal Medical Therapy Still Underused in
CHD
Legacy Effects
of Statin Therapy - Reduction in
All-Cause Mortality
SG2 Expert Talks About Resetting
Priorities in Cardiology
AHA: Get With The Guidelines - Not Much
Improvement
AIM-HIGH Trial -
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