Cardiovascular Diseases
Our cardiovascular specialists are here for you. Our team of internists near you are dedicated to supporting your success and ensuring that you regain your health and overall wellness.
What Are Cardiovascular Diseases?
Cardiovascular diseases encompass a range of conditions including hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure, arrhythmias (such as atrial fibrillation), and valvular heart disease. Early identification and comprehensive care reduce the risk of life-threatening events like heart attacks and strokes. Presentations may include chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, dizziness, fatigue, leg swelling, or asymptomatic elevated blood pressure.
What Are the Causes of Cardiovascular Diseases?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is caused by a combination of risk factors, including:
Lifestyle factors: Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, and air pollution
Physiological factors: High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and high blood sugar or glucose
Other medical conditions: Diabetes, kidney disease, and obesity
Socio-economic factors: Ageing, income, and urbanization
Other factors: Family history, ethnic background, and sex
What Are the Treatments and Therapies for Cardiovascular Diseases?
Management includes lifestyle interventions such as dietary modifications (e.g., DASH or Mediterranean diets), regular physical activity, smoking cessation, stress management, and pharmacological treatments like antihypertensives, antiarrhythmics, statins, or anticoagulants. Referrals for advanced imaging or cardiology consultation are made as needed.
How Can Well by Messer Help You with Cardiovascular Diseases?
Well by Messer can arrange blood pressure monitoring (including 2-week ambulatory monitoring if needed) with home blood pressure cuff. We also perform electrocardiograms (ECG) to detect arrhythmias or ischemia. As needed, we can send you for coronary calcium score tests, echocardiograms, and stress tests. We can order advanced lipid panels, high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), glucose levels, and natriuretic peptides (e.g., BNP or NTproBNP for heart failure assessment) to further assess cardiovascular risk.
At Well by Messer, our physicians, dietitians and personal training partners work together to treat patients with cardiovascular diseases. Although medications can be effective, many of the symptoms can also be treated with lifestyle modification. Since cardiovascular diseases oftentimes accompany obesity and can lead to diabetes and high cholesterol, we encourage our patients to work closely with our dietitians and personal training partners.
Meet Your Well by Messer Team
Under the leadership of top endocrinologist in New York, Dr. Caroline Messer, our caring and talented team of board-certified endocrinologists (adult and pediatric), gynecologists, internists, dermatologists, urologists, psychologists, plastic surgeons, dietitians, and personal trainers will be dedicated to supporting your success and regaining your metabolic health at our metabolic weight loss centers in Manhattan, Greenwich, CT, and soon to be Miami, FL!
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