Heart Health & Prevention

Cardiology: Tips for a Heart Healthy Lifestyle Video Transcript

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Text, Tips for a heart healthy lifestyle. Essentia HealthA woman in an examining room with a model of a heart next to her

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SPEAKER: I think the number one thing that I can tell my patients to really help them have a tremendous impact on their heart health is to move. Just move. And for most people, it's incorporating maybe 10, 15 minutes of physical activity into their daily routine and then try to build that up to the recommended 30 minutes of daily activity. The other thing that we often see are people who are smokers, and I counsel everybody every time I see them to consider cutting back or quitting smoking. There are diet changes that you can make that will reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke. The DASH diet and the Mediterranean diet have been the ones that have been proven. Those include making sure you eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, reducing the sodium intake to less than 2 grams per day, and limiting the amount of red meat and dairy that you eat.

Medical Insight: Cardiometabilic Clinic Video Transcript

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ANTHONY MATT: Welcome to Medical Insight. A weekly health care feature brought to you by the experts at Essentia Health. Here's your host Anthony Matt.

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ANTHONY MATT: Today on Medical Insight, we're featuring something offered at Essentia Health St. Mary's Medical Center called a cardiometabolic clinic. It's for patients who are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Text, Natalia de Albuquerque Rocha, MD. Cardiology. Dr. Rocha wears a lab coat.

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NATALIA DE ALBUQUERQUE ROCHA, MD: Cardiometabolic diseases are things like type two diabetes, prediabetes, elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity. So these conditions will increase your risk of having heart disease and disease of the blood vessels. ANTHONY MATT: The goal of the cardiometabolic clinic is to bring awareness to patients elevated risk for these diseases and give them control of their health. NATALIA DE ALBUQUERQUE ROCHA, MD: Cardiometabolic clinic aims to make sure that all those risk factors are well controlled and that we're following all the guidelines. The most recent guideline's directed. ANTHONY MATT: Doctors will create a personalized plan for each individual patient, ensuring it's tailored for them and their condition. NATALIA DE ALBUQUERQUE ROCHA, MD: That will include an exercise plan. You can see our dietitian, and we'll go over every single risk factor that the patient has and create a plan of treatment. Most things you'll be able to do at home. ANTHONY MATT: About 40% of Essentia's adult patients with diabetes have cardiovascular and other risk factors. The clinic will strive to help those patients along with those who are discharged from hospitals after cardiovascular events or have a history of heart failure and other risk factors. NATALIA DE ALBUQUERQUE ROCHA, MD: Patients are losing weight if they're obese. They're getting their cholesterol under control, they're getting their A1C under control, and they're overall feeling better. So it's an improvement in quality of life. ANTHONY MATT: Patients can either self refer or be referred by their primary care doctor. There are also virtual options available for this as well.

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Medical Insight: Broken Heart Syndrome Video Transcript

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TRACY BRIGGS: The language we use about love can sometimes seem like anything but. Crushes, falling heart, heartache, broken hearts.

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As they say, love hurts, right? And it's not exactly wrong. Your broken heart can actually hurt, and in extreme cases, the term died of a broken heart can be true. Turns

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out, there is a medical reason for the physical side of emotional pain. Essentia Health interventional cardiologist Dr. Samantha Kapphahn says it's possible because of topic pseudo cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome, where the heart is so shocked or surprised by extreme emotion that stress hormones or adrenaline flood the body.

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DR. SAMANTHA KAPPHAHN: The way that the body responds to that surge of stress hormones in your body creates certain changes with the way the heart acts and the way the heart functions. Dr. Kapphahn says people with broken heart syndrome might feel like they're having a heart attack. But Dr. Kapphahn says doctors can tell it's not a heart attack when they look more closely at the patient's arteries.

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DR. SAMANTHA KAPPHAHN: Traditionally, with people who have the broken heart syndrome, their heart arteries, for the most part, are actually pretty good. Or their episode is not being caused by a blocked artery in the sense, like a heart attack might be the way most of us think about them. TRACY BRIGGS: Beside the difference in the amount of artery blockage, Dr. Kapphahn says another clear indicator of broken heart syndrome is distinctive patterns in how the heart pumps.

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DR. SAMANTHA KAPPHAHN: The very early bases of the heart squeeze very aggressively. But the rest of the heart is so stunned and in shock, it doesn't squeeze very well at all.

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TRACY BRIGGS: Dr. Kapphahn says broken heart syndrome can happen to anyone during times of extreme emotion. The good news, though, is that those with a broken heart aren't usually suffering from a serious medical issue. However, in those rare, serious cases, patients usually recover with the help of cardiac medication and emotional support. With this Essentia Health Medical Insight, I'm Tracy Briggs.

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