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Patel, Nachiket J

 
9798994120309: FLOW: A Clearer Way to Understand and Protect Your Heart

Synopsis

Heart care can feel like a language you were expected to learn overnight.

A test is called “normal,” yet symptoms continue. A scan shows plaque, but no one explains what it means. A doctor recommends a medicine, stent, or bypass, and suddenly you are trying to make sense of risk, evidence, and uncertainty while worried about yourself or someone you love.

FLOW was written for that moment.

Board-certified interventional cardiologist Nachiket J. Patel, MD, FACC, FSCAI, draws on years in the catheterization laboratory and in patient care to explain heart disease clearly—from silent changes inside an artery wall to a heart attack that unfolds in minutes, and from the first unexpected test result to recovery and lifelong prevention.

Inside, you will learn:

• Why a heart attack can occur after a reassuring stress test
• What calcium scores, CT scans, stress tests, and other heart tests can, and cannot, tell you
• How blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, tobacco, sleep, family history, and Lp(a) shape cardiovascular risk
• Why symptoms and heart disease may look different in women
• What heart medicines, stents, and bypass surgery are designed to accomplish, and when their roles differ
• How to navigate the first 90 days after a heart event and build a plan that lasts

The book also includes the Flow Toolkit, with practical guides and worksheets for appointments, symptoms, medicines, family history, treatment decisions, eating, recovery, and long-term follow-up.

FLOW is not about memorizing every medical term or chasing certainty. It is about asking clearer questions, understanding what a test or treatment can change, recognizing its limits, and knowing what happens next.

Whether you are living with heart disease, recovering from a heart attack, stent, or bypass, facing an unexpected test result, helping a family member, or trying to protect your heart before an emergency, FLOW offers a clearer way forward.

Understand the problem. Know the purpose of the plan. Take the next step.

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