Ask the Cardiologist: How to Combat Atheroma

Dr. Maciej Malinski is on the medical staff at Sherman Hospital. He has been kind enough to answer some frequently asked questions related to maintaining a healthy heart. Look for additional articles in our popular Ask the Cardiologist series over the coming weeks.
Q: I was recently diagnosed as having severe atheroma in my aorta and [...]

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Using Cholesterol Numbers to Monitor Heart Disease Risk

A recent article on cnn.com discussed how cholesterol levels affect your risk of heart disease. Basically, your overall cholesterol level should be under 200, but the number can vary depending on factors such as smoking, high blood pressure or a family history of heart disease. For complete details just follow this link. [CNN]
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Sherman Hospital Healthy Heart Mobile Details

The Sherman Heart Mobile is at a new location once a month in Bartlett! As a reminder, our healthy heart mobile performs heart and vascular screenings especially beneficial for people over 55 or with risk factors for heart disease. Screenings are also available for blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, osteoporosis and more.
Call 847-429-6500 to register. [...]

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Cardiac Bios: Advanced Cardiology Consultants

Over the past few weeks we have brought you professional information about the cardiac specialists at Sherman Health. We will continue this series with the four doctors who have their main offices at Advanced Cardiology Consultants, Ltd. (click here for a map)
Maciej K. Malinski, M.D.
Specialties: Cardiology, Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Warsaw, 1993
Internship/Residency: University of [...]

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