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from:msnbc.comBill Clinton has a new lease on life, but there's no cure for the heart disease that has twice forced the former president to get blocked arteries fixed.
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What a crock to say this isn't the result of diet or lifestyle!! He admits he ate badly and did everything wrong up until the surgery. Do they expect that supposedly "toeing the line" for a few years is going to miraculously reverse a lifetime of unhealthy behavior? Sheesh. All this does is make people feel like "Oh it's just genetics" "nothing I can do about it" "Why should I eat well/exercise if it makes no difference". Argghhh.
Maybe you should ask Jim Fix that question. A man who ran miles a day and watched his died and yet died at a very young age due to heart disease. He might argue with you if he could.
kinda sortof like that biblical excerpt; Vessel, the complexity of MAN ...?????
I'm not so sure there is " no cure" for his particular condition.
Dean Ornish would vehemently disagree with that statement...
Cardiologists have to be careful as to what they say or the research grants will stop flowing their way. No one wants to be an ostrasized 'outsider'...they want to remain in 'the club'... Medicine is another profession (like most) thats a conspiracy against the layman.
Quote from the article:
"Dr. William O'Neill, a cardiologist and executive dean of clinical affairs at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.
"I've done 10 or 15 in a single patient over a period of time," and they still live long lives as long as they don't have a heart attack and suffer damage, he said.
At 75 to 100K a pop sounds like a way (another way) these quacks have found to generate cashflow, and still cover their backsides with an "unless"
Are we expected to believe they cannot produce something ( a wire mesh tube) that does not need replacing 10 to 15 times in a period of years. Sounds like a Toyota style problem to me.
Never trust someone who Practices their profession
Did you ever consider that the blockage after the stent was put in was maybe before the stent or after the stent in the artery? Just asking. I don't think the stent goes bad.
Dr. O'Neill says, "I've done 10 or 15 angioplastys in a single patient over a period of time", and Dr. Schwartz says, "Clinton's 'numbers' were good ... we have no cure for heart disease, but excellent treatments."
Seems to me the 'excellent treatments' (I assume statin$) that give good 'numbers' don't mean much if someone is still having to have 10 to 15 angioplasty$ over a period of years. How many angioplastys would that patient need over that period of years without statins?
It's those cigars. Sorry, I forgot he didn't smoke them!
Pig!
This headline is incredibly misleading and does a terrible disservice to those with heart disease who are seriously improving their daily habits and effecting positive changes in their health. Such a thoughtless headline also encourages those with heart disease to adopt a fatalistic attitude about their condition.
There is more than enough evidence that the effects of heart disease can be mitigated and even reversed with a significantly modified lifestyle (please see the writings of Dr. Dean Ornish). The mistake we make as a society is to say: "If a doctor cannot fix my medical issue with medication or surgery, then it's incurable." How very sad.
Please improve the quality of your medical reporting.
I agree. I had a Major heart attack on May 10th, 2006. I was life-flighted from Waycross, Ga. to Baptitst Medical in Jacksonville, Fla. where I was implanted a drug stent in the back of my heart. No damage to the heart, as I chunked down 2 asprins before I fell out. I watch my diet some, but really not much of a change of life. I have over 600 nitro pills the VA gives me and never had to use one. I ride my horse, take my metropolol, lisiniprol, and simvistatin like clockwork. I feel as healthy as my horse. My biggest concern is, when they told me i had a 99% blockage in the back of my heart where they placed the stent, they also told me I had a 40%, and 30% blockage in the front, but couldn't do anything about them until I had another heart attack..lol. Oh well, life is good, and i'm not really worried about what may lie on the other side anyway. Death is part of life. Live it, treat people right while you can, and love and cherish your families. Life is too short not to share it.
Do they have a CURE for anything? If there is a CURE and your not part of the AMA and if the FDA doesn't approve, then, it's against the law to say so.
Geeeez...no wonder China and other countries are advancing in technology and science.
Death is a cure all.
While a heart attack can be brought on by a clogged artery, there is no single cause for the clog. Neither is there a single cause for a re-clog in a person with a bypass or stent. Each individual usually has to find what works best for them and often without any good advice from the one size fits all, pharma-medical establishment.
With regard to Bill Clinton, one might well imagine the constant stress in his life from both politics and his own, self described pattern of dual lifestyles surely added to the genetic and diet factors in promoting his heart disease. Not only that but the greater volume of research indicates that none of the drugs Mr. Clinton takes can reverse heart disease...they only slow the progression.
According to Dean Ornish and many MD, PhD nutritionists, for at least some people, heart disease can be stopped or even reversed. As with pharmaceuticals, people do not respond the same to various nutraceuticals like fish oil, for example.