Sudden cardiac death it happens just like lightning strike out of the blue
and you're dead can't predict it we've known that's not
true for years go back to this Harvard Health newsletter from 2006 here's their
quote not mine sudden death isn't always so sudden the
Hollywood picture is that it's like a bolt out of the blue it's more like real
lightning preceded by clouds wind and rain think about it real lightning
doesn't happen in clear blue sky it happens in a storm here's the study that
they were quoting it was in Circulation it was from the University of Berlin
back in 2006 basically here's what they did they looked at 5,381
EMS missions there were 406 cases of
sudden cardiac death here's what they found
2/3 of them had known cardiac disease 72% happened at home
2/3 of them there was an eyewitness right there watching this
happen 80% had symptoms prior to arrest a quarter of them for over 2 hours had
angina a third of have angina for over an hour again plenty of time to get this
person into the hospital to get them monitored to get defibrillation ready
and to prevent that sudden cardiac death if you've been watching this channel for
a while you know that we can actually prevent that death and predicted long
before just an hour we don't have to wait until this happens start looking at
what's going on inside your body you can prevent that heart attack and stroke
others said you couldn't even predict so this is a case we've talked about it
many times you've heard about this case even if you don't recognize this slide
you'll remember the case Washington DC April 29 back in 2008 again 2 years
after this study showing that this is predictable it's an EKG being done in
the district of Georgetown in DC typical patient 58-year-old nonsmoker
unremarkable family history cholesterol was unremarked
having some blood pressure problems but controlled on medications we're starting
to have some issues in terms of the blood pressure and says you know what
let's get a let's get a stress test and just make sure everything's okay they
adjusted the blood pressure medications and the patient returned to work until
6 weeks later on Friday the 13th of June he collapsed CPR was done by
co-workers EMS was called there at 1:40 they arrived 4 minutes later they did
3 defibrillations they arrived a few minutes later at Sibley Memorial
Hospital where he was pronounced dead he had a plaque in his left anterior
descending work his doctor Dr. Michael Newman that did the stress tests
appeared on special report with NBC to talk about what happened with Tim
Russert and his sudden cardiac death but you know was 2008 that was over a decade
ago we're much better now we don't have that right that's not right we still
have people getting stress tests having false negative stress tests and having
sudden cardiac death if you've watched this channel you know that you can
actually start looking for a ball you know that this is important heart attack
is the number one cause of death in the US and stroke is the leading cause of
disability and heart attack is the cause of sudden cardiac death you can talk
about fibrillation versus heart attack bottom line is heart attack causes
fibrillation that causes sudden cardiac death bottom line is predict a heart
attack you can prevent sudden cardiac death now you also know if you've been
watching this for a while that you have a huge possibility of getting a false
negative just like Tim Russert did get a stress test between 25 and over 30% of
them of the negative stress tests are false negatives so are you feeling lucky
but then don't get a stress test we know how to work that up and we'll talk about
that in just a minute let's again mention the importance of
heart attack and stroke we've done a lot of things to manage heart attack and
stroke risk blood pressure being one of the biggest ones especially for stroke
LDL maybe not so much the risk that we've continued to think in terms of
your standard practitioner of medicine in fact over half of people well about
half of people that have a heart attack and normal
LDL so LDL is not as helpful as you might think
meanwhile heart attack death is making a major resurgence we thought that it was
going to come down to become not the number one cause anymore but then that
curve started changing again and what are we doing about it there's still over
8 million nuclear stress tests performed yearly in the United States
1.5 million of those is predictably wrong so if you don't know that some of
the ways that we can predict your heart attack by getting appropriate testing
appropriate history then give us a call we can help you thank you very much for
your interest
so I'd like to talk with you a minute about the webinar people don't
understand what the webinar is it's actually a great way to get some access
to health care that you're just not going to get any other way you actually
get the lab tests yourself for at a local lab a Quest lab near you for the
inflammation panel and the OGTT and the insulin survey these are things
inflammation and prediabetes that your doctor just does not know about and
here's the thing Harvard Health and many others have said
look sudden death is not always so sudden the Hollywood picture that it's a
bolt out of the blue is not realistic it's more like real lightning preceded
by clouds wind and rain stop that metabolic storm before the lightning
strikes and here's where that metabolic storm comes from it's inflammation and
it has to do usually with prediabetes so again we actually get labs we go over
them in the webinar and then you can start finding out how you can prevent
that heart attack others said that you couldn't even predict we can show you
how thanks