THE title might sound odd, but turning the pages of Have You Planned Your Heart Attack? could save your life.
Cardiologist Warrick Bishop provides readers with an easy-to-understand, research-driven and proactive approach to preventing cardiac disease.
Dr Bishop provides an insight into modern coronary risk assessment, and why we need to take a more holistic, preventative approach that utilises the latest technology to deal with risk through investigation and management.
"Taking a picture of the coronary arteries using CT to determine their health isn't new; it just isn't being done routinely," Dr Bishop said.
"Yet, by using these technological advances you can be ahead of the game about your cardiovascular health.
"Wouldn't you want to know if the single biggest killer in the Western world was lurking inside you?"
The book is a must-read for those who:
- Want to reduce their risk of a heart attack
- Have high cholesterol and are not sure about taking statins
- Come from a family with "bad" hearts
- Just want to know what's going on with their heart
- Want to know more about cardiac CT imaging
"In a world of conflicting expert opinion, of contradictory scientific surveys, of fads and fancies and fierce dietary debate, Warrick Bishop is leading us towards some diagnostic certainty," writes television journalist Charles Wooley in his foreword.
"If we know what's actually happening inside, then we have a basis for remedial action."
- Have You Planned Your Heart Attack? by Dr Warrick Bishop, RRP $34.99 - or $19.99 as e-book from www.haveyouplannedyourheartattack.com.au