HEART DISEASE Part 2
Exercise in the prevention of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) In the UK Back in the 1950s and 1960s, studies of bus drivers and Whitehall civil servants by Professor Jerry Morris, a Scottish doctor working at University College, London, became epidemiological classics....
HEART DISEASE Part 1.
It was the management of heart disease which first introduced me, over 50 years ago, to the idea of exercise as medicine. Read on and I will explain more but first a few facts about the heart, its blood supply and what makes it all go wrong. The blood supply to the...Abnormal blood fat levels - dyslipidaemia
Dyslipidaemia means undesirable changes in your blood fats. This is a complicated field and what follows is a simplification. Cholesterol A raised blood cholesterol is the best known form of dyslipidaemia.. Cholesterol is an important component of cell walls – we all...
EXERCISE TO TREAT CORONARY DISEASE
Exercise for treating Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Angina Angina pectoris is the tight central chest pain, sometimes radiating to the left arm, brought on by exercise. The pain brings the sufferer to a halt and settles within a few minutes. Angina was first described...
EXERCISE TO PREVENT CORONARY DISEASE
Exercise in the prevention of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD).