Health Article: How to Avoid a Heart Attack

Advice on heart disease prevention from author and leading cardiologist Arthur Agatston, MD. 

A study presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting and published online in the New England Journal of Medicine has raised questions about whether the majority of people treated with a popular invasive procedure to reduce chest pain actually need the surgery. This study is turning up the spotlight on noninvasive prevention rather than surgical intervention, just as Dr. Arthur Agatston, preventive cardiologist and author of The South Beach Diet® does in his book The South Beach Heart Program. According to Dr. Agatston, who has been practicing aggressive prevention for many years, "this study is further evidence that we have been doing too much intervention and not enough prevention."

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