Heart Disease is Preventable, Get Screened Today!

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Modern Heart and Vascular Institute in Humble, TX, Katy, TX & Cleveland, TX is a state-of-the-art cardiovascular practice equipped with cutting-edge diagnostic tools used to assess heart health and diagnose cardiac conditions in the earliest of stages.
We specialize in all aspects of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We diagnose and treats arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, vein disease, and high blood pressure. The practice also expertly manages cardiac conditions in people with diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, obesity, family history of premature heart disease, etc.
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- Well, Doctor, thank you so much for waking up with us,
always a pleasure to have you on my show.
- Thank you, Maggie.
- Well, we're talking about something really important that can affect a lot of people, heart disease.
So tell us a little bit more about this.
- Heart disease is by far the most common
cause of death, hospitalizations, and disability in our country,
every few seconds someone has a heart attack and dies from it, and the great thing is,
is that they're all preventable. People, if they get screened properly, and early,
and pay attention to their symptoms we can prevent their heart disease.
We really can.
- Yes, let's prevent them.
I know that this is in my family, heart disease, and it's so important to get screened.
So, first of all, who should be coming to see you? - Great question, so the people that
are at the highest risk. There are two groups of them.
Number one, the ones that have risk factors.
So that would be diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
smoking, family history of heart disease, obesity, those people are at risk.
Number two are the ones that have symptoms, Maggie,
the ones that have chest discomfort. The typical symptom is more of a heaviness,
like someone is sitting on my chest, but it can be pretty much any symptom in the chest,
shortness of breath, light-headedness, palpitations, or just fatigue, lack of energy.
Grandma used to be energetic and now we went to visit her and she's just,
you know, she's more tired, more fatigued, that may be her only sign of heart disease.
So those are the two groups of people that are at the highest risk, Maggie.
- So then once we make the appointment with you tell me a little bit about the process,
what will you do with us?
- So, as with any heart
disease or vascular disease, step one is talking with our patients,
that's where we really excel, is trying to extract the information that we need
to make good decisions for them, by just listening to them and
asking appropriate questions. Then we do a thorough physical
examination on them, we listen to their heart, their carotid arteries, feel the pulses,
blood pressure, heart rate, do an electrocardiogram or EKG on them.
And when appropriate we all order further testing which could include an ultrasound
of the heart, stress test, and other things. One of the things that you see behind me is a
scanner that very few people have. This scanner here can diagnose
heart disease, blockages, get this, in two seconds.
- What?
- A two second scan, we can tell you if you have calcium buildup inside your arteries of the heart,
two seconds, Maggie,
- Two seconds, and it can save your life.
So I don't know about you all out there, but I definitely want to make
an appointment with you. Where can people go for more?
- They can use our website, it's modernheartvascular.com,
or call us 832-644-8930. Our passion is to prevent
and we want to do that for everyone.
- Well, thank you for the work that you do
and definitely want to reach out to you if we have any of these issues.
Thanks so much, Doctor.
- Thank you.