Below you'll find a list of all posts from July, 2015
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number calculated from a person’s weight and height. BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems. BMI can be used to indicate if you are overweight, obese, underweight or normal. A healthy BMI score is between 20 …
Submitted by Dr T on October 22, 2011 – 1:24pm in Cardiac Risks Question: I’m 46 yrs old and weigh 160lbs. I recently had a heart ultrasound and was later told by my family physician that all 4 valves (Aorta, Mitral, Tricuspid and Pulmonary) were regurgitating blood back into the heart, but that it was nothing to worry about because …
Submitted by Dr T on October 20, 2011 – 12:03pm in Cardiac Risks Question: Respect,I had a heart attack and so far I have had six ERGO tests on the rear of 14 October I enrolled quote”low R in V1-V2.” Please let me explain what that means.Thank in advance, George Hi George,It can mean a variety of things. “Low amplitute” …
Submitted by Dr T on October 15, 2011 – 10:14am in Your heart rhythm Question: Dear doc recently their was a study going around with regards to the prognosis of pvcs that it increased mortality now I know you clarified this in your blog this study has really unsettled me as I suffer from pvcs but very very mild at …
Submitted by Dr T on October 1, 2011 – 5:45pm Question: Recently for the past 3 to 4 weeks I’ve been experiencing a unusual flutter in my heart. it feels like it would skip a beat. Now recently i seen a cardiologist for that i had a EKG,Chest X Ray,echocardiogram full blood work. the cardiologist said everything is normal. then …
Submitted by Dr T on September 29, 2011 – 8:54am in Your heart rhythm Question: hi,i had a ECG 6 month before..which show irregular heart beat.. i had a electrocardiography.. which was normal and doctor gave me betaloc 50mg for irregular heart beat.. then after heart beat start regularly. but after 4 month i stopped to take betaloc and i …
Submitted by Dr T on September 27, 2011 – 12:36pm in Cardiac Risks Question: Dear Sir,My 50 yrs old father is having bicuspid aortic valve,recently diagnosed aortic severe stenosis,suggested for valve replacement surgery PSG-69, Forward velocity-4.16 m/s.but due to financial problem we are not able to bear operation cost.need your suggestion that can we wait for 2 to 3 years …
Submitted by Dr T on September 25, 2011 – 9:34am in Your heart rhythm Question: Good evening i recently had a 24hr holter monitor, it came back with over 11,000 pvcs with about 20% of them occuring between 3-5pm. This number scares me because the last holter i had was 4 yrs ago and only showed 1400. the doctor seemed …
Submitted by Dr T on September 23, 2011 – 9:35am in Cardiac Risks Question: dear sir, i am 36yrs old male and got panic attack two times .my doctor advised me taking inderal 40mg.i started taking inderal but i reduced the dose from 40 to 10mg.i was fine but my recent ECO shoes DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION and A/E RATIO 1.2:1 REDUCED LV …
Submitted by Dr T on September 19, 2011 – 4:22pm in Your heart rhythm Question: Sometimes during my work out i push hard and my heart rate reach like 180 beats while my max heart rate and target HR are 178 and 141 respectively using the 220-age formula… would this high rate (180bpm) hurt my heart or health? what is …