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Bruno With my case, I had no symptoms you list, with barely 7% circulation in my...

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BrunosBud: Question 1: For the general population, what affordable and...

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BrunosBud:

Question 1: For the general population, what affordable and accessible diagnostic test(s) are the best indicators of cardiovascular and heart disease? Please list your TOP 3 "Diagnostic Tests". (ex. high blood pressure, high total/hdl ratio, ecg, C reactive protein, etc...)
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If a person stays fit, the best indicator will be shortness of breath and chest pain while exercising, or even at rest. Ignoring those as serious can be fatal. Really.

A simple diagnostic test is a diet question. If a person has a diet low in anti-oxidants and high in saturated fat and salt, there is about zero chance they will not be developing heart disease. That diet pretty much guarantees a person will have oxidized LDL that will fatten blockages and help them develop more quickly. The salt guarantees high blood pressure, necessary to cause artery damage, a necessary pre-cursor to blockage development.

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Allowing oneself to have high blood pressure, or be aggravated into it, is a pretty good guarantee. That was my only possible symptom, and my BP was not very high, 135/90 before medication. But I was not checked to see how effective it was brought down, nor did I check my blood pressure when I was stressed. That may have done me in.

Unfortunately, the #1 diagnostic test for heart disease is an angiogram. Everything else is a blind guess, but something of increased probablity. I passed two stress tests for other heart problems, and no clue showed up that I was living off of collateral mico-circulation. It fed my whole heart and I could exercise very strongly. One test about 11 years before surgery, the stress test elevated my heart to 178 for a few minutes. That was 100% max for my age at the time, 42, and indicated I was extremely fit. Heart disease takes decades to become severe, unless of course someone is really doing almost no good things, and everything to force it to progress quickly.
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Question 2: What are the TOP 3 "symptoms" that are indicative of cardiovascular or heart disease?

With absolute certainly ? That is something available in statistics. To the best of my recollection, the top three killers, and symptoms, are:
#1, a heart attack.
#2, a stroke
#3, ED in men, or PAD, peripheral artery disease in men and women.

Lots of people still die with the first symptom, about 40%, down from 50% or more.

An arterial blockage anywhere can be a symptom of a problem in coronary arteries. It can be a muscle, a limb, or another organ,
----------------[br>Finally, I was prediabetic at one time but through lifestyle improvements, I no longer concern myself with high blood glucose. Did you have high fasting blood glucose numbers (diabetes) accompany your Heart disease? No.View Thread

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Doctors don't study nutrition. Its not part of the medical school curriculum. Nor...

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My arteries are severely compromised. I can not afford spikes in saturated fats...

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My arteries are severely compromised. I can not afford spikes in saturated fats that give me arterial spasms and angina.

For six years my LDL was in the 50's, and HDL the mid 40's. I'm not sure why the sudden change, but its still ok as the LDL / HDL ratio is still under 2.0 It might be a reduction in intensity in exercise.

As to the source of the coconut information in books, its not from published professional medical research. Again making it of a questionable source.

Politicians make up stuff all the time, and fact checkers have a field day with it.

Nuts are healthy in moderation. I tried one each of a walnut half, an almond, a peanut, and a cashew every day for a month a few years ago. I stopped when I began getting chest discomfort with exercise that I had not had in three years. After another month without the nuts, the discomfort was finally totally gone. I can eat pistachios by the handful everyday. The lowest oil nut, and proper balance of poly and mono unsaturated fats. Pistachios somehow positively impact function and number of EPCs. This is in published medical research.

Eggs raise both HDL and LDL. So do shrimp. So if the numbers are close, adding those to the diet is not harmful, since HDL is raised, too. Again, published medical research.

Having fats be healthy is partly (totally ?) a function of adequate anti-oxidants in the diet.

Heart attacks come on as spasms that turn into a tight constriction, or a piece of interior arterial lining split off by arterial damage foam cell expansion blocking the remaining opening in an artery. Blockages grow slowly as LDL becomes ox-LDL and is taken up by macrophages, and slowly choke off the lumen of the arteries. All is takes is spikes in fats coinciding with drops in anti-oxidants for a blockage to keep building little by little. Almost nothing makes the blockages shrink. But frequent intake of anti-oxidant rich foods, and minimal intake of fats ensures there is no oxidized LDL to be taken up and increase a blockage. Ever. Herbs and spices have ten to a hundred times the anti-oxidant of fruits, which have ten times more than veggies.

We will disagree. I also am further on the continuum of heart disease and can not afford to increase any blockages, so I do not risk it. You believe you can.

I share very few opinions. I write of medical research I have come across, and my own life experience as I try to further distance myself from debilitating heart disease, and help other people's lives who already have angina but not getting answers or results from their doctors. Quite a few grateful co-workers, and I don't know how many readers from WebMD or Yahoo! Answers.View Thread

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Also this study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10673913 with "In the...

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