Heart disease is still our number one killer, but how can you keep your heart healthy? Some cardiologists would like to put statin-type cholesterol-lowering drugs in municipal water supplies, but there are patients who don’t tolerate them well. What are the alternatives? With so many risk factors relevant to heart disease, which ones do you need to worry about?
Guest: Peter Salgo, MD, is a practicing physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York Cityspecializing in the pre- and post- operative treatment of heart patients, heart transplant recipients, and artificial heart candidates. He maintains a full-time practice in Intensive Care Medicine in the Open Heart ICU at Columbia. He is Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He is the author of The Heart of the Matter: The Three Key Breakthroughs to Preventing Heart Attacks
