Heart Disease Can Be Stopped
It's a frightening truth that perfectly "healthy" people can die of heart disease. As Dr. Arthur Agatston explains, we can't always see the symptoms of the disease with our eyes. Here again is why adequate
health insurance is such a necessity today. Many people aren't getting the life saving tests that they need because they simply can't afford them.
Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans. In 2004, the American Heart Association reports that 871,500 people died of heart disease, compared to 550,270 for all cancers
combined.
And as Agatston makes clear in his
MSN Health article, "someone can look great on paper-pass a standard exercise stress test with flying colors, have good cholesterol scores, and never have had a sick day in his or her life-but still have arteries that are a diseased and potentially lethal mess."
This is why cutting edge health diagnostics are so useful today, and it's also why affordable health insurance is so important.
Today we have the tests that can identify those people who are "high risk," who may die of heart disease even though they seem fit and healthy. But, because so many of them can't afford medical treatment, those tests are not happening, and these people don't know that their lives are in danger.
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Did you know...
Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans?
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There are more than 46 million uninsured Americans today, an all-time high. Many of those people will suffer from sickness or disease and be unable to get the treatments that could not only save them, but prevent illness altogether.
The key to protecting yourself from heart disease is to know whether or not you may be at risk. Until health insurance and healthcare costs are at a reasonable level, there will continue to be thousands of people who don't even know that they have a deadly, and preventable, disease.
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