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Cool New Heart Scan Technology by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health In another sign that Dr. Davis and Track Your Plaque had it right all along, a small study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of the RCadia Automated CT Analyzer provided ... Read on »

About As on This Blog by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Yeah, I guess I am a phillistine now that Google Ads run on my blog. As you probably know Track Your Plaque is a non-paying gig and we refuse to run ads on the member site (m ... Read on »

Whistleblowers Unite! And Get That Second Opinion! by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health We can only hope that this whistleblower wins his case! Basically, this doc claims he was fired for objecting to an arrangement where by a manufacturer of medical products wa ... Read on »

Defining a Cure for Heart Disease by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health When can I be considered "cured" of heart disease or, more accurately, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)? This is a subject that has plagued me for years and especially since I be ... Read on »

More Healthcare Hijinks! by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health As a healthcare consumer advocate I always marvel at how little knowledge - even common sense - exists among so-called "health professionals." I think I'll devote series of bl ... Read on »

Finally, No More Begging and Conniving for Blood Tests by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health If you have heart disease or just about any serious health issue you have probably been in this boat. You don't feel right, there has been a change in you treatment, or, dammi ... Read on »

Common Sense: $1 Million Per Ounce by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Now just how much do you think this little observation cost? The obesity epidemic in the US is due solely to increased food intake That's right, this "revelation" is based on ... Read on »

Anti-Platelet Ad Nauseam by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Why do I torture myself? Number 1 answer: I am a masochist, of course! I read a fair number of medical journals and reports and lately all I hear about are anti-platelet med ... Read on »

Clopidogrel vs Prasugrel: The Arguments are Getting Thin by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Watching drug manufacturers duke it out over competing products is like watching a tragic comedy - you don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Witness the latest antics in the ... Read on »

I'm Baaaa ... aaack! by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Yes, the reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I'd like to say something artsy like, "I was taking a sabbatical to 'rediscover my voice'." - but that would be a load o ... Read on »

More Customer No-Service by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health There was recent post on the Track Your Plaque Member Forum about hand-held body-fat analyzers that piqued my interest. I wondered if they really work. So, I attempted to cont ... Read on »

A CETP Phoenix Rising from the Ashes of Torcetrapib? by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Gene investigation and pharmaceutical research may be working together to revive cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibition as a means of combating heart disease. Th ... Read on »

A Fabulous, Fascinating, Fortuitious Forum: The 2008 Top Ten by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health As I sit back and think about all the things that have happened on the Track Your Plaque Forum in the last year I am truly amazed. So much so I have come up with a Top Ten lis ... Read on »

Now What?! It Pays to be Paranoid? A Panic over Panic. by Chris K. Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health The European Heart Journal recently reported that heart disease is more common in patients with panic attacks than in the general population. Moreover, they found the risk in ... Read on »

Pfizer Drops Bomb on Heart Health Pipeline by Chris K. Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Research on drugs for heart disease does not always translate into a pipeline for cures but it certainly is a pipeline for hope. As much as I beat up drugs and drug companies ... Read on »

Information Please by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health The biggest problem you will have in fighting heart disease is the woeful lack of information about new discoveries concerning why heart disease occurs, how heart attacks happ ... Read on »

In the beginning . . . the doctors really pissed me off! by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health The clock began ticking for me one day when I was 14 years old. My grandfather took me to the beach and bought me TWO ice creams. That night he died of a heart attack at age 6 ... Read on »

Hey! I feel smarter already! by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health In my last blog, I mentioned I still take a B-Complex vitamin largely for the ability of folic acid (Vitamin B-9) to reduce homocysteine even though the latest medical trials ... Read on »

Just for fun, let's brag about the pills we take by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Talk about getting old! Each and every day I take 11 different drugs and supplements for a total of 19 pills to fight my heart disease. Anybody else who wants bragging rights ... Read on »

The best stent is still no stent - reloaded by Chris K. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I recently wrote an article for Track Your Plaque warning of the problems with stents and that heart disease sufferers should not consider them a quick fix for a lifetime of h ... Read on »

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