Dr. Crandall: Silent heart disease can strike anyone

Many people with heart disease don’t even realize it because they don’t feel any different.

Coronary heart disease occurs when less blood and oxygen reach the heart muscle due to narrowing of the heart arteries. This restriction of blood and oxygen flow can lead to a heart attack.

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But not everyone knows when they developed heart disease, or even when they had a heart attack. According to the American Heart Association, a silent heart attack has no symptoms, minimal symptoms, or unrecognized symptoms. By some estimates, nearly 50 to 80 percent of all heart attacks are silent.

In fact, heart disease can even surprise cardiologists. Chauncey Crandall, MD, New York Times bestselling author and director of preventive medicine at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Florida, developed heart disease in his late 40s. “I had no family history of heart disease…and it came on suddenly,” Dr. Crandall told Newsline. “I worked very hard. We had a child who was very sick. So there was added stress with that, but it was almost a heart attack.

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Heart disease can strike men and women of any age without warning. “I was a cardiologist. So I was giving advice to a lot of people on how to improve, but I wasn’t following that advice myself,” Crandall says.

Crandall says his book, Simple Heart Cure, stems from this lesson: Heart disease can go silent. “It can even attack a cardiologist,” says Crandall, author of “The Simple Heart Cure: The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease” and editor of the popular newsletter “Dr. Crandall’s Heart Health Report.” .

“There are things we can do to reverse heart disease, to prevent heart disease and to have a better life. And that’s what this book is about,” says Crandall.

According to Crandall, who spoke with Newsline while on vacation in Jamaica, one recommendation for improving heart health is to rest and relax. “So that’s what I’m doing this week.”

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