David Perlmutter Quotes

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.

A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.

So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the brain getting cut off, depriving it of oxygen and killing off the part fed by the clogged artery.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

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.

If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.

I'm thin and never thought I'd have a stroke.

I don't think people realise how important it is to have your blood pressure checked. Stroke is so sudden, so catastrophic.

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.

If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.

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

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

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

Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

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

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.

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

Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.

The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.