Heart Attacks and Heart Disease – What Some Doctors Aren’t Telling You Can Kill You!
53 per cent of all Americans will die from heart disease and/or heart attacks. Over half of these have normal or lower than normal cholesterol levels. According to Dr. Scott J Deron, certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, this is a fact in a study of over 85,000 patients done over a 10 year period. The other factor, twice as important as your cholesterol level, is your highly sensitive or HS C-Reactive Protein level or CRP. Many doctors are familiar with the term, but they aren’t testing for it. A CRP test will measure the amount of low grade or “silent inflammation” in your body.
This information is not new, in 2001, the FDA approved the CRP test as an acceptable test to identify low grade inflammation in the body. So why aren’t doctors offering the test? One theory is that there are no prescription drugs to be prescribed when the CRP results show high risk for heart disease.
The level indicators are as follows:
(1) less that 1 mg / L (in blood) shows low risk of developing heart disease in a CRP test
(2) between 1 mg / L (in blood) to 3 mg / L (in blood) shows average risk in a CRP test
(3) over 3 mg / L (in blood) shows a person to be at high risk in a CRP test
These tests are readily available. Your doctor should have no problem giving you this test, although he or she may ask you why you are requesting it. The test in inexpensive, from $25.00 on the low side to $150.00 on the high side. I can provide you this test through my friend Dr. Rick Jahn as an in home self-lance test for around $50.00. A growing number of studies indicate that this test is a better indicator of heart attack, stroke, and heart disease. Like all disease linked to low grade inflammation in the body, this may start years before any symptoms appear, e.g., heart attack or stroke. You can easily Google for validation.
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Sometimes I just don’t understand the health-care system in the United States. Highly sensitive C-Reactive Protein has also been linked to dental disease, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Another doctor, Dr. Vaughn T. Johnson, a board certified family physician, has found that mangosteen can be effective in lowering hs C-Reactive Protein levels in patients in his own studies.
Work with your physician regarding this, CRP levels can read high due to other factors that may be temporary due to injury or other problems that induce low grade inflammation in the body. Your doctor can help determine if high level CRP is a general state that you need to be concerned with or other factors are clouding the picture. Protect yourself by being proactive against heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.
