Here is a recent presentation regarding alcohol and AFIB.
Category: lifestyle
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Plant based diet – tips from Peggy
My wife Peggy is the reason we can all eat a plant based diet while getting a balanced nutrition. She says that “vegans avoid all animal origin foods. A well planned plant based diet can be healthy if sufficient and varied foods are eaten. The China Study showed that if a person consumes less than…
Endurance athletes and ventricular scar
37% of highly trained endurance athletes had scar (focal late gadolinium enhancement) on their MRI which is a 10-fold increase over normal. Below is a cross section of the ventricles. The yellow arrow points to the scar. Inclusion criteria for the study were: (a) highly-trained endurance athletes (20–45 years) who had trained for a minimum of…
india lockdown
1.2 billion in India under complete lockdown. Why are we not doing this in the US? Watch this!!
coronavirus
Graphics – some educational, some funny. Best one out there – NY Times
namaste
Handshakes are going to go out of fashion with the coronavirus. How about we all consider the Indian greeting – “namaste“. Here is a demonstration by the Israeli prime minister: Obama does it better:
afib & lifestyle talks episode 1
exercise and AFIB
As an electrophysiologist in Boulder, Colorado I get a lot of questions about how much exercise is recommended for patients with arrhythmias. Exercise is good for you but is more better? Anecdotal evidence has suggested that endurance exercise increases the risk of atrial fibrillation. A recent study published in European Heart Journal addressed this issue….
alcohol-AF study
Published in NEJM Jan 2. 3 salient points: The “drinkers” had 10 drinks per week – less than 2 drinks per day. What we usually refer to as “social drinking” 🙂 Quitting alcohol reduced chances of recurrence of AFIB by 20% (absolute risk reduction) – or 55% relative risk reduction. This is HUGE! Getting patients…