Toni Braxton Quotes

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.

When I had the heart attack I had one stent inserted, which was great.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

I thought I had a chest infection and went to the doctor - five days later I was under the knife. It came completely out of the blue. My arteries were 95% blocked.

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

I have a cow's valve in my heart.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.

I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

I had three bypasses in one go, using arteries harvested from my leg and the right side of my chest.

I come from an era when if you are told that you need a triple heart bypass it sounds pretty terminal. But I think it's quite a normal operation these days.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.