Heart Thoughts – How to identify and prevent heart disease

A shockingly large number of Americans succumb each and every day to
cardiovascular disease. It tops the charts as the leading cause of
death at an impressive 28% according to the Center for Disease Control,
CDC. These deaths are largely from heart attacks (myocardial
infarctions) but include other heart disease related conditions as
well. Nearly half of the people who have had one heart attack suffer
another within a year. Faced with these facts and statistics, it is no
wonder that an entire month, February is designated as American Heart
Month to promote education and awareness about heart health issues.

Modern society tends to gaze into the gene pool for explanations for
the maladies of humankind but consider this: Paul Dudley White who was
the cardiologist for President Dwight Eisenhower (who suffered several
heart attacks), said that when he graduated from medical school in
1911, he had never even heard of a heart attack. The following year in
1912 the Journal of the American Medical Association published an
article detailing four cases of an unusual event which they called