Best Practices for a Healthy Heart How to Stop Heart Disease Before or After It Starts

The concept of "best practices" is now widely discussed and followed throughout the sciences and in many industries. Now, in Best Practices for a Healthy Heart, board-certified cardiologist Dr. Sarah Samaan offers everyone seeking optimal heart health clear information and guidance on the "best practices" to follow regarding diet, exercise, drugs, alternative therapies, and more. Dr. Samaan sees roughly 300 patients each month and as a spokesperson for the American Heart Association, regularly speaks to groups about cardiac health. Her intensive work directly with patients, along with the thousands of hours she has spent researching and synthesizing the scientific literature for the very "best practices," make this a highly readable guide that will be invaluable for all patients living with heart disease. Dr. Samaan counsels readers through taking stock and charge of their numbers, diet, supplements and alternative medicine, vices including caffeine and alcohol, the importance of managing stress, and much more.

Sarah Samaan, MD, FACC, a Vanderbilt University Medical School graduate, is a board-certified cardiologist with additional board certifications in echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Samaan practices cardiology full-time, caring for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular conditions. For the past six years, Texas Monthly magazine has named Dr. Samaan a “Texas Super Doctor.” She is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and was listed as one of “America’s Top Physicians” by Consumers’ Research Council of America. In 2005, she was profiled in Medicine Men, a book celebrating notable Texas physicians.
Dr. Samaan practices cardiology at Legacy Heart Center in Plano, Texas, and at the Baylor Heart Hospital, where she is codirector of the Women’s Cardiovascular Institute.