In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER,
inside patients' rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease.
State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first
time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future in which it may very well
become redundant. While heart disease has been around for a while, the type of
heart disease people have, why they have it, and how itâs treated is
changing. Yet, the golden age of heart science is only just beginning. And with
treatments of heart disease altering the very definitions of human life and
death, there is no better time to look at the present and future of heart
disease, the doctors and nurses who treat it, the patients and caregivers who
live with it, and the stories they hold close to their chests.
More people die of heart disease than any other disease in the world and when
any form of heart disease progresses, it can result in the development of heart
failure. Heart failure affects millions and can affect anyone at anytime, a
child recovering from a viral infection, a woman who has just given birth or a
cancer patient receiving chemotherapy. Yet new technology to treat heart
failure is fundamentally changing just what it means to be human. Mechanical
pumps can be surgically sown into patientsâ hearts and when patients with
these pumps get really sick, sometimes they donât need a doctor or a
surgeonâthey need a mechanic.
In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown
to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning
not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of
heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We
are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we
could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have
led to the epidemic of heart disease. In…
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