Heart Smart

Septiyani Wafda                                            109014000077                                                VB

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Book title        : Heart Smart

Author             : Dr. Mathew S. DeVane

Publisher         : Wiley

Date Published: 2006                                                  Number of pages: 261

Genre              : Instructions

CHAPTERS

Step one

Recognize the Warning Signs of Heart Disease

1.      Heart Attack!

Know the Warning Signs to Save Your Life

            This chapter gives us information about the first signs of heart attack. The signs are such as chest pain, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, feeling cold and clammy, sweating, extreme weakness, fatigue, or exhaustion, nausea or vomiting, palpitations or fluttering in the chest and dizziness or light-headedness.

2.      The Ultimate Chest Pain Guide

When Should You Worry?

            The chapter told about the causes of chest pain. Because, not only heart attack that causes a chest pain, but also other disease such as angina, aortic dissection, and pulmonary embolism.

3.      Attack of the Killer Plaque

Coronary Heart Disease and Atherosclerosis

            I think this chapter will give us some information about the cause of heart disease, heart attacks, and angina. Most of them are cause atherosclerosis. And in this chapter will discuss about atherosclerosis.

Step Two

Take Charge of Your Cardiac Risk Factors

4.      Traditional Cardiac Risk Factors

The Big Picture

            This chapter told about the cardiac risk factor. Such as, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and smoking. This chapter also told about the traditional risk factors, risk factors that we can or can’t control.

5.      Watch Out for the “Big Five” Killers

Hypertension, the “New” Diabetes, Smoking Obesity, and a Sedentary Lifestyle

            This chapter told about the “Big Five” cardiac risk factors. There are: hypertension, the “new” diabetes, smoking obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle. And this chapter gives us information to prevent it.

6.      Taking Aim at HDL, LDL, and Triglycerides

A New Look at Some Old Foes

            This chapter discussed about cholesterol in general and where it comes from. It gives us information about the good cholesterol, bad cholesterol and triglycerides. This chapter also tells us how to get our cholesterol levels tested, when to get tested, what the tests mean, and how to treat abnormal levels.

Step Three

Go High-Tech to Detect Heart Disease and Lower Your Risk

7.      Digging Deeper Into Your Risk

Inflammation, Infection and Beyond: Which Emerging Factors Should You Be Tested For?

            This chapter told about the emerging cardiac risk factor may substantially increase our cardiac risk. Heart attack can attack everyone although they have a good lifestyle or a healthy body.

8.      The Truth about Stress Tests

What They Can and Can’t Tell You about Your Cardiac Risk

            This chapter told about the stress tests. This is also told about the limitations and potential downside as well as benefits of stress testing.

9.      The Cutting Edge Of Cardiology

Take Advantage of the Latest Imaging and Stress Tests to Find Out Your Risk

            This chapter told about the test to determine cardiac risk. There are two categories: (1) screening test (2) cutting-edge, one-stop, comprehensive cardiovascular evaluation tests.

Step Four

Putting It All Together: What’s Your Risk?

10.  Cardiac Risk Assessment Tools

This chapter consist of content that asses cardiac risk. Such as the assessment if we want to check our cholesterol and so on.

Step Five

Live the Heart Smart Life: a Cardiologist’s Practical and Proven Approach

11.  Kick Off Your Heart Smart Program

101 Things You Can Do Now to Prevent a Heart Attack

            This chapter gives us information about Heart Smart Program. This action can we do as a part of our daily routine and this action will help us lose weight, feel stronger, look better, and live longer.

12.  Exercise

A Priority for Heart Health

            This chapter told about the treatment that could lower our risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, lower our blood pressure, lower our cholesterol, and help us lose weight, improve our bone strength, make us happier, and help improve the way we look.

13.  What Can I Eat?

The Heart Smart Approach to Nutrition, Dieting, Heart-Healthy “Superfoods,” and Supplements

            This gives us some information about our eating habits. This chapter also gives some information about diet, including Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, and the Mediterranean Diet.)

14.  Aspirin and Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs

Heart Medications to Save Your Life

            This chapter told about the right heart medications that lower our risk of coronary heart disease. Aspirin and cholesterol-lowering drugs are two of the primary medications used to fight coronary heart diseases.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1.      How the book organized?

The book organized orderly from the definition about the heart attack, the cause of it and finally about the solution to prevent the heart diseases. The organization of the book makes us pleasant to read this book and didn’t feel bored when read it.

2.      Did you find the book give you the most benefit? In what way?

This book really gives me most benefit. Especially in keeping healthy and prevent the heart attack that maybe come sometime without any sign. This book also gives us further information about heart attack, heart diseases and another illness that can make us died. This book also gives us some solution to prevent heart attack such as treatment to lower the calorie, to lose weight and so on.

3.      What is the book best for? Why?

The book is the best for some research that related to heart diseases. Because it really explain about it with simple language and it didn’t makes researcher confuse. The writer of this book also give some steps how to prevent heart diseases that can be discover by the researcher. But this book also good for our daily reading.

4.      Which part of the book that is very suitable with the title? Explain.

I think the part of the book that very suitable with the title is the steps five about live the heart smart life: a cardiologist’s practical and proven approach. From the title we already know that very suitable part of this book is this part. It talks about heart smart program; the exercise, the rule of eating habit that we have to approach or we have to cut out.

5.      What did you like best from the book?

I like the book because the language is easy. It is formal but simple, than we can exactly understand about the writer massage. The field of the book is interesting, because it told about an important topic easily in our life. The font of the book good and we enjoy when it read.

6.      What did you like least from the book?

Something that I like least from the book is in this book there are many difficult words. Such as, HDL, LDL, etc. There is also a part of the book I like least. It is about cardiac risk assessment tools. Because there are many tables about something like a measurement. But the writer didn’t tell us how to measure it.

7.      Did you find the author’s background match with the field? Explain.

Yes, I found the author’s background match with the field. His name is Matthew S. DeVane, D.O., M.B.A., F.A.C.C.,. He is a director of Cardiac Diseases Prevention and a recognized prevention expert in the largest private cardiology clinic in northern California. He is also a researcher, teacher, and popular speaker. It is match with the field of the book that discuss about heart disease and the solution.

8.      What would you like to add in the book? Explain.

Overall the book is including all the important information about heart disease. But what I would like to add in the book is the technique about assessment of cardiac risk. How to measure our cholesterol, etc. Step by step with brief information.

9.      Would you recommend this book to a friend? Explain.

Yes, I would recommend this book to all my friends. Beside the language that use in the book is easy, it is also important in our life to know about heart disease, especially about heart attack that may come sometime without any signs. If we read this book, we know about the first warning and what we should do.

10.  On a scale of 1-10, how difficult was this book for you? (1 = easy, 10 = difficult) why?

Maybe it is 4 for me, because the language is easy to understand. But there is also some scientific vocabulary that I don’t know what the meaning of it. Overall I like this book because give me really important information.