Treating Heart Disease – Exercise vs Angioplasty
angioplasty with stent
A report that appeared in Natural News says that there is a better way to treat heart disease than angioplasty with stents. Now, I already had two angioplasties and 3 stents three years apart and I am wondering what to make of this report. It says that it is not a new drug or surgical procedure but simply regular exercise. This was the conclusion made at the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation meeting recently held in Barcelona, Spain.
It goes on to say that treating heart disease by means of angioplasty is a huge business.
A report in Bloomberg News last fall noted that about 800,000 angioplasties are performed each year in the U.S. at a cost of about $10 billion annually. And, although many cardiologists consider angioplasty to be the “gold standard” of care in most types of acute coronary events such as heart attack, the procedure’s long term benefits have been questioned by many doctors. In addition, the role of angioplasty in treating other kinds of coronary disease, like angina, isn’t clear.
I took up biking as a way to help me improve my heart condition starting in 2000. And in fact I bike commuted to work at least 3 to 4 times a week for two years following my angioplasty in 2006. If this report was based on empirical data, which I suppose it was, then why did biking not prevent me from having the second angioplasty? I intend to bring this up with my cardiologist when I see him next month.
If you receive some information about your health that is somehow contradictory to what you know, would you talk about it with your health care provider or would you just let it pass and see what would happen?
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