Your Health Today Heart & Vascular Health Archive

Vitamin D and Your Heart Attack Risk
Posted Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 1:04 pm PDT
If heart attack is your main concern, low vitamin D is a relatively minor issue and you'll benefit most by concentrating your efforts on controlling…
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Are You Taking Too Many Medicines?
Posted Fri, May 02, 2008, 2:56 pm PDT
As many of us live longer with chronic conditions, the use of multiple medications at the same time is becoming common. And so are the problems they…
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All About the Stress Test
Posted Mon, Mar 03, 2008, 1:27 am PST
The most common stress test is the exercise treadmill test. In the basic exercise test, the patient walks on a treadmill, while blood pressure, heart…
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Screening for Heart Disease: Which Tests? When?
Posted Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 7:02 pm PST
I generally don't recommend routine screening tests looking for coronary artery disease. Instead, my advice is to concentrate your efforts on…
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Common Heart Tests: What They Reveal
Posted Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 6:50 pm PST
It's easy to get confused about the many tests available to investigate possible heart disease. Let's review some of the more common tests, along with…
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What's Your Heart Attack Risk?
Posted Thu, Feb 14, 2008, 10:04 am PST
This risk estimate incorporates your age, gender, blood pressure, HDL cholesterol, smoking status, and the presence or absence of diabetes.
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Cholesterol 101: What's Your Equation?
Posted Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 9:52 am PST
We've learned a lot about cholesterol in the past few decades, and it can be hard to understand and follow all the different advice out there.
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Meet Howard Levy, M.D.

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Hi, I’m Dr. Howard Levy, an internal medicine specialist at Johns Hopkins. Taking care of patients is my passion. In addition to teaching at the School of Medicine, I’m the clinical director of general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station. In this blog, I’ll cover a broad range of topics. My goal is to remove some of the mystery — and a few of the myths — surrounding common health concerns. I’ll do this with a generous helping of fun and advice to help you achieve and maintain good health.