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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 06:14 pm
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What exactly is a cardiologist and what are some symptoms of heart disease in women?
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 06:11 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: What are some of your main tools or tests that you use to determine if someone has a weak heart or a diseased heart?
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 06:09 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: Does heart disease affect women differently than men?
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 06:00 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: Okay, talk to me about minority groups and do minority groups have higher incidences of cardiovascular disease and if so is it a combination of reasons like may be diet, and access to care, maybe even hereditary issues?
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 05:15 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: Does most insurances that Americans have cover the basic exams you just mentioned?
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 05:10 pm
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Dr. Paul Underwood: Hello, my name is Dr. Paul Underwood. I am an interventional cardiologist. My advice to you would be to be very aware of your heart and your heart’s condition. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of all Americans and it’s the No. 1 killer of women as well.
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 05:04 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: We are asked all of the time by women how they should best advocate for themselves inside of their doctor’s office as we would pertain heart diseases or when somebody is visiting their cardiologist. What type of advice would you give a patient on how to advocate for better health for himself or herself in the doctor’s office?
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 04:58 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: Who should take aspirin for heart health?
Dr. Paul Underwood: Well, certainly Aspirin is very useful in thinning the blood and if a person has a blockage in blood vessels, you want your blood to be thin so it doesn’t actually form a clot and stop the blood flow completely. And so one of the first things that we would do for anyone who is having a heart attack as we give them Aspirin and then we’ll give them other blood thinners as well, but typically the first one they receive is Aspirin.
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 04:49 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: If heart disease effects ethnicities differently, does the FDA -- the Food and Drug Administration -- encourage drug companies to present data across all of the demographic groups?
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by punderwood
Posted: Tue., January 22, 2008, 04:13 pm
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EmpowHer Asks: How good of an idea will you have about a patient's heart after an EKG exam?
Dr. Paul Underwood: Well we can test the heart pretty much as it at rest with the EKG. So looking for abnormalities in the heart muscles they often will show up in different voltages on the EKG. Likewise if a person has extra heartbeats, a lot of extra heartbeats then they will show up on the EKG as well.
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