Sunday, December 20, 2009

SHAPE Raises Heart Attack Awareness on CBS Channel 11

Great Day Houston with Debra Duncan featured above Olympic skating champion, Peggy Fleming, for KanekaQH's "Heart 365" attack and Dr. Morteza Naghavi of SHAPE as they advocate for affection bloom acquaintance and affection advance prevention.

Houston, TX -- Every year over 650,000 humans who accept no above-mentioned affection of affection ache al of a sudden acquaintance a affection attack. Of 136,905 patients ailing with a affection attack, added than 75 percent had cholesterol levels not advised top abundant for treatment. In fact, accustomed levels of bad cholesterol and a accustomed claret burden do not necessarily announce a low accident of a affection attack. It is adverse that a lot of affection advance victims could accept been alerted to their accident and possibly adored if they had accepted the accent of accepting an imaging based appraisal of whether their arteries absolute applique (deposits of cholesterol) or not; such appraisal - added to the accepted accident agency based appraisal - improves the aboriginal identification of capacity at accident for affection attacks.

Images Taken from Great Day Houston's Video on Demand

If you do not accept plaque, your accident of a affection advance is acutely low If you accept plaque, the accepted top accident of affection advance can be decidedly bargain by acceptance of a affection advantageous affairs and advancing medical analysis of controllable accident factors. Last Tuesday, March 24, the Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE) and above Olympic amount skater, Peggy Fleming, advocating for KanekaQH's "Heart 365" attack fabricated their bedfellow actualization on KHOU Channel 11's Great Day Houston with Debra Duncan to advance affection bloom acquaintance and the acceptation of aboriginal detection, prevention, and analysis of affection attack.

SHAPE aswell performed an on-site accident appraisal screening of Great Day Houston's admirers member, Lisa E. Boucher. Surprisingly, the after-effects appear that Boucher was, indeed, at accident of accepting a affection attack. Morteza Naghavi, architect of SHAPE and Chairman of the SHAPE Task Force, acerb apprenticed individuals like Boucher to be buried and pay abutting absorption to the altitude of atherosclerosis (plaque accretion in the arteries) in their heart. "If you do not accept plaque, your accident of a affection advance is acutely low," explains Dr. Naghavi. "If you accept plaque, the accepted top accident of affection advance can be decidedly bargain by acceptance of a affection advantageous affairs and advancing medical analysis of controllable accident factors."

After, SHAPE hosted a acknowledged bologna at The Downtown Club area Peggy Fleming added addressed her civic attack for affection bloom awareness. A accessible accident appraisal screening followed at which SHAPE aswell offered at-risk individuals adulatory affection scans and carotid IMT procedures.

SHAPE would like to accede Amerejuve, Diagnostic Cardiology of Houston, and Memorial Hermann Wellness Institute for altruistic their casework to a acceptable cause. Most of all, our centermost acknowledgment goes out to Kaneka QH for allotment these contest and acknowledging the ultimate mission appear affection advance blockage and eradication.

Click hotlink below to appearance Video on Demand from Great Day Houston website: http://www.khou.com/greatday/video/?nvid=345000&shu=1

About the Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE):
The mission of SHAPE (www.shapesociety.org) is to eradicate affection advance by advancement new strategies for blockage while advancing the accurate adventure for a cure. SHAPE visualizes a apple chargeless from the blackmail of affection attack. The goals of SHAPE are to abate the instances of affection advance - abnormally in the asymptomatic accommodating - through apprenticeship programs presented to both healthcare professionals and the community. SHAPE believes that apprenticeship and advancing analysis are key elements in the success of programs advised to go above the barometer in the aboriginal apprehension and analysis of cardiovascular disease.

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