Preventive Cardiology and
Lipid Program
The aim of the Penn Cardiac Care Preventive Cardiology
Program is to both determine and reduce a person's
risk of heart disease using state-of-the-art technologies
and aggressive medical management.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in
the United States - 500,000 Americans die from
heart disease every year - that's 4,000/day. Sudden
cardiac arrest claims three lives every seven
minutes. And, more than half of all heart attack
victims never experienced any prior symptoms.
One of the most common risk factors of heart
disease is high cholesterol. The Preventive Cardiology
Program operates one of the largest lipid clinic
in the area for the treatment of high cholesterol.
If you have high cholesterol, you can participate
in a number of research studies investigating
new treatments for high cholesterol and other
heart disease risk factors.
You can benefit from the Preventive Cardiology
Program if you:
- are overweight
- have high cholesterol
- have hypertension
- have heart disease
- have a family history of heart disease
Please call 1-800-789-PENN to contact a Penn
Cardiac Care physician about your risk of heart
disease and ways you can help prevent it.
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