Labs
This is a lab performed to check blood cholesterol levels once every five years
Lipid Panel
This is a diagnostic test that can look at the heart wall motion, heart valves, and the left ventricular ejection fraction, or LVEF%/heart function.
Transthoracic Echocardiogram
This is the personality type that puts a patient at more risk for CAD
Type A Personality
An HMG- CoA reductase inhibitor that lowers cholesterol, LDLs, and triglycerides.
Atorvastatin/Lipitor (Statins)
Symptoms such as: DOE, fatigue, weakness, PND, a hacking cough with pink sputum, restlessness, irritability, and nocturia, are signs of this diagnosis
Left sided heart failure
This is a lab test used to test the extrinsic pathway for the anticoagulant Warfarin/Coumadin
PT/INR
This is a test that shows cardiac enlargement and fluid accumulation
Chest X-Ray
These are the main foods recommended to help lower your CAD risk
low saturated fats and high in soluble fiber
This is a drug that blocks the activation of Beta-1 cells in cardiac muscles
This is the main transporter of fats to the blood vessels and the cells
LDLs
These are the three subset isoenzyme labs that are included in a total CK.
CK-MB (cardiac muscle)
CK-BB (brain and lungs)
CK-MM (skeletal muscle)
Metformin should be stopped prior and held up to 48 hours after this specific diagnostic cardiac procedure
Fatigue, poor exercise tolerance, high resting heart rate, and an irregular heart rate with exercise are signs and symptoms of this CAD progression
Ischemia
A drug that inhibits synthesis of Vitamin K-dependent clotting factors
Warfarin/Coumadin
This is the particular food you cannot take with a statin
Grapefruit juice
This is a specific protein found in a myocardial cell that is also a lab that can be elevated for up to two weeks from myocardial damage.
Troponin I & T
Stress test
This releases Catecholamines, alters lipid metabolism, and increases glucose levels, leading to a higher risk for CAD
Stress
This is a drug that can cause the serious side effect known as rhabdomyolysis and myopathies
Atorvastatin/Lipitor (statins)
Hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypercalcemia increase the risk of toxicity for this drug
Digoxin
BNP
The EKG is a test that uses twelve views of the heart to aid in diagnosing these two types of myocardial infarction
STEMI and NSTEMI
These are the BMI ratings that put patients at risk for CAD
>20% over ideal or a BMI >30
A drug that activates antithrombin to inhibit the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin (also inhibits
clotting Factor IX, X, XI and XII)
Heparin
This stimulates release of Aldosterone resulting in sodium and fluid retention
Angiotensin II