Recent Posts in Heart Care

Mar 7, 2019 - In Heart Care The Truth About Learning Your Numbers

There are a wide range of numbers and ways to measure our health that it can be confusing trying to keep up and know what constitutes a healthy range. Read on to decode the common numbers and learn how you can measure yours! Blood Pressure (BP) : Systolic ...

Read More

Mar 5, 2019 - In Heart Care Living Well With Heart Failure

The term “heart failure” means that this vital organ is damaged in some way. Despite the dire-sounding nature of the term, however, a diagnosis of heart failure is far from a death sentence. “Care for heart failure patients has improved so dramatically ...

Read More

Feb 19, 2019 - In Heart Care The Road to Heart Failure Prevention

The path you take to prevent heart failure is the same path to prevent heart disease of any type from occurring. There are some risk factors we can’t control– genetic abnormalities and predispositions, family history, gender and age – but there are many ...

Read More

Feb 18, 2019 - In Heart Care The #1 Danger to Women

For females, heart disease has familiar risk factors—but sometimes different symptoms. ASK MOST WOMEN WHAT HEALTH THREAT THEY ARE MOST worried about, and they will likely say breast cancer or perhaps ovarian cancer. Statistically speaking, they are ...

Read More

Feb 11, 2019 - In Heart Care Hope Starts Here – Resources & Treatment to Manage Heart Failure

RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey’s most extensive heart care network, offers patients every resource needed to manage heart failure – from diagnosis through treatment – caring for approximately 20,000 heart failure patients in New Jersey each year. Nearly 6 ...

Read More

Feb 8, 2019 - In Heart Care Two Sides of Heart Failure

Loss of heart function due to heart failure can involve the left, right or both sides of the heart. Heart failure is a serious medical condition, but advances in treatment can slow progression and improve quality of life, while providing new hope to ...

Read More

Feb 6, 2019 - In Heart Care Living Well With Heart Failure

It’s Possible To Feel Good And Stay Active, Even With A Diagnosis Of Heart Failure. The term “heart failure” means that this vital organ is damaged in some way. Despite the dire-sounding nature of the term, however, a diagnosis of heart failure is far from ...

Read More

Feb 1, 2019 - In Heart Care How to Avoid Becoming a Cardiac Patient: A Guide for the Worried

Most patients who come to see Sarah Y. Fan, MD, a cardiologist at New Jersey Cardiology Associates in West Orange, and a member of Barnabas Health Medical Group, already have some form of coronary disease. But not all of them do. “Some people come to see ...

Read More