Dr. Chauncey Crandall- 4 Things Happen Right Before A Heart Attack

Heart attacks do NOT happen out of the blue. In fact, your body may be trying to tell you of an impending heart attack for days, weeks, even a month or two before it strikes. To help you prevent a heart attack and fight deadly heart disease, Dr. Chauncey Crandall, editor of the popular newsletter Dr. Crandall's Heart Health Report, would like to send you his Heart Disease Prevention & Reversal Kit.

A well-trained and expert heart specialist- Dr. Chauncey Crandall

Presently working as a chief of the Cardiac Transplant Program at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic, Dr. Chauncey Crandall has a great proficiency in this field of cardiology. Before delivering serving as a cardiologist, he completed three years of research in the Cardiovascular Surgery Division, cardiology fellowship training, and advanced fellowship training.  http://goo.gl/8GB0rD

With Type 2 diabetes, we need to keep one thing clearly in mind: Insulin is a growth hormone. As long as the body is producing insulin, high blood sugar counts cause relatively little damage. “It’s the body’s attempt to bring these counts down by producing more insulin that causes the damage,” says Dr. Chauncey Crandall

Perhaps you’ve heard that diabetics can have trouble with their eyes, their kidneys, and the healing of wounds or ulcers, especially on their feet. The reason is that, in these areas, blood flows through extremely small vessels.
The kidneys, for example, are a vast network of tiny vessels called arterioles and capillaries, many of which are so small that only one blood cell can pass through them at a time.

What happens then when excess insulin causes the walls of these vessels to thicken? They quickly become blocked. Once a vessel is blocked, it dies.
That’s why the circulatory system of a person with uncontrolled diabetes looks like a dying tree. All the tiny buds at the ends of the branches disappear, then the shoots from which the buds would have sprouted, then the smallest branches, and so on.

When I look at an MRI of someone with advanced diabetes, the patient’s main arteries may look fine, but thousands upon thousands of the system’s smallest branches have simply disappeared. The “tree” of a diabetic’s circulatory system has become nothing but a trunk and a few denuded branches.

What’s more, that vast network of small vessels in the kidneys is actually used to filter waste products out of the blood. When this no longer functions, the diabetic needs to go on dialysis treatment — that is, they need to have their blood filtered by a machine.

Eye and foot problems are caused by the same withering of the cardiovascular system. When the body can’t supply enough blood flow to the rods and cones of the eye, these tissues die and the person can become blind. Likewise, when a diabetic gets a sore on his foot, it can turn into an ulcer that refuses to heal because there’s not enough blood supply to rebuild the tissue.

These conditions are rightly associated with diabetes, but their immediate cause is the destruction of the cardiovascular system. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease work together to deliver a 1-2 punch to the body’s most vulnerable systems.

Source: http://chaunceycrandall.com/2417/diabetes-and-heart-disease-deadly-1-2-punch/

Women: Balance Estrogen for Heart Health

 

By Dr. Chauncey Crandall

The role of estrogen in heart health has become somewhat controversial in recent years. Previously, estrogen was thought to be protective of the heart in women, because women generally develop heart disease about 10 years later than men. This coincides with menopause, when a woman’s estrogen levels decline dramatically. By age 65, a woman’s risk of heart disease is equal to that of men.

 

When female estrogen goes down, harmful LDL cholesterol increases in the bloodstream and “good” HDL cholesterol decreases. This leads to a buildup of fat in the arteries that increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Based on that evidence, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was considered to be standard treatment during menopause as recently as 10 years ago. Besides relieving the outward symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes and insomnia, it was thought to keep cholesterol under control and have a positive effect on blood vessels and the heart.

 

However, that thinking began to change in the late 1990s, when additional study results of HRT started coming in. For instance, the Heart and Estrogen-Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) followed more than 2,700 women with existing heart disease; during the first year of HRT, women in the study had a 50 percent increase in heart attack and stroke, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

 

The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a study of 160,000 women, showed similar results. The part of the study that involved HRT with estrogen and progesterone was even halted in 2002 because the hormones were causing an increase in heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots in the legs and lungs.

 

In 2004, the estrogen-only HRT study was stopped because it did not reduce the risk of heart attack, but increased the incidence of stroke and blood clots, according to a report from The Cleveland Clinic. There’s no getting around the fact that estrogen levels decline with age. Each woman should work closely with her personal physician to determine whether to undertake hormone therapy to bring those levels back up. Other factors, like a history of blood clots or cancer, must be considered before increasing these hormones.

 

For women with premature menopause, hormone therapy is usually necessary. Women who go into menopause before the age of 40 have a different set of health risks than women who reach menopause at the average age of 50. One of those risks is a higher incidence of heart disease.

 

Hormone therapy does seem to reduce that risk when started soon after menopause in younger women. Older women with severe menopausal symptoms should work with a physician to take the lowest effective dose only as long as needed.

 

For both men and women, hormone balance is key. Be aware of environmental estrogens that might lead to overload in your body. Besides hormones and pesticides in food, other sources are things that get into the water supply. Switch to biodegradable laundry detergents. Always recycle old cell phones, computers, and printers rather than put them in the trash. That will help control the release of heavy metals that turn into environmental estrogens.

 

 

Source: http://chaunceycrandall.com/2764/women-balance-estrogen-for-heart-health/

 

Dr. Crandall Selected Top Doctor in Cardiology by U.S. News

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Dr. Crandall, a board certified cardiologist at Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Jupiter, Fla., was delighted to be selected as one of the nation’s Top Doctors in 2011 by U.S. News in partnership with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

This Top Doctor recognition is based on nominations submitted by other physicians and reviewed by Castle Connolly’s doctor-led research team. Of America’s more than 800,000 physicians, only 31,000 were accorded this honor by their peers in 2011. Doctors do not apply or pay to be named a Top Doctor.

U.S. News Top Doctors was developed to help consumers find doctors who can best meet their specific medical needs, such as with Dr. Crandall’s expertise in cardiology. Secondly, Top Doctors allows physicians across America to share their own awareness of who among their peers are the most worthy of referral.

Dr. Chauncey Crandall is chief of the Cardiac Transplant Program at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic, where he practices interventional, transplant, and vascular cardiology. He received post-graduate training at Yale University School of Medicine, and cardiology fellowship training at Beth Israel Medical Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Dr. Crandall is currently on staff at the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, and Jupiter Medical Center in Florida.

Source: http://chaunceycrandall.com/1560/dr-crandall-palm-beach-cardiolog/