Do you ever experience a pain in your chest and ask yourself, “Am I having a heart attack?” In this—the very first episode of UNC Health Talk: The Podcast—we discuss chest pain that is NOT a heart attack with Deepak Pasi, MD, cardiologist at North Carolina Heart and Vascular, part of UNC REX Healthcare. We…
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Participating in cardiac rehab is associated with a 50 percent drop in death rates.
Symptoms in women can be vague, subtle and easy to miss.
A heart attack can manifest in many ways, and knowing the signs can be a lifesaver.
Heart patients get the best care when primary care providers and cardiologists work together, sooner. There is a trend toward earlier collaboration between general physicians and heart specialists, according to Thelsa Weickert, MD, a cardiologist with UNC Heart & Vascular. “Gone are the days when we would see people after their third or fourth heart…
Trying to eat well for your heart? You can go out to a restaurant without overloading on calories, fat, salt and sugar.
Physicians and cardiologists work together to ensure continuous treatment.
You should never take chest pain lightly, but it can have non-life-threatening causes
Hypertension is common and treatable, but also potentially dangerous
UNC School of Medicine scientists overcame a significant barrier to convert scar-making fibroblasts into living, beating cardiomyocytes.
By bumping up the levels of a well-known protein in the heart, UNC researchers have found a new way to generate more blood vessels following a heart attack.
