CARDIAC TESTS

Don’t know whether you need to see a cardiologist or cardiothoracic surgeon? This article will help you understand the difference between the two health professions.

Chances are, you have probably heard about the Mediterranean Diet, either in the media or from friends and family. But what is it exactly? It is more of a style of eating than a traditional diet, and top health experts from around the world sing its praise. One of the reasons for this praise is that it is one of the only diets shown to reduce heart attack and stroke in clinical trials (PREDIMED study). The following article will explain the Mediterranean diet, the health benefits of this eating style, and suggestions on following it.

Our clinic has recently seen a number of healthy patients, mostly teenagers and young men, who started to describe symptoms such as chest discomfort, laboured breathing and palpitations (the sense that their heartbeat is abnormal) several days after administration of the 1st or 2nd dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Moderna mRNA–based lipid nanoparticle vaccines.