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I would say the context I get asked about the menopause most is with regard to symptoms of palpitations, followed by the risk of heart attacks around this time in a woman’s life. More and more women are seeking advice and guidance about these topics as general public awareness grows.  As a 46 year old […]

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I have been thinking of writing and videoing about women and the heart for a little while, and a patient I saw this week has prompted me to do so today. She had symptoms that were not necessarily typical for a heart problem and had struggled to get a diagnosis, but when we ran some […]

You will notice that I have a number of videos on cholesterol on my website, which is one of the commonest topics I get asked about. These days though, we have moved well beyond standard cholesterol panels. I discuss such things as Apolipoproteins and Lipoprotein (a) -Lp(a) for short- in those videos, but in brief […]

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Consistency over intensity is a motto I try and instil in my patients, and indeed myself. What do I mean by this? Changing behaviours to be more health focused is hard. If it were easy, two thirds of the population wouldn’t be overweight. Improving fitness (and we can debate how we measure that) is the […]

The recent tragic death of Dr Michael Mosley I’m sure gave many people cause to reflect. Here was someone who dedicated much of his life to preventative medicine, yet lost his life in a seemingly random and terribly unfortunate way. I could cite a number of other examples of doctors I know who have just […]

Happy Father’s Day! I’ve had a lovely day: bike ride and some yoga with my daughter, a few holes of golf with my son (who bought be some personalised golf balls with instructions not to lose them!) and will be having a bbq in the sunshine then watching the football. Pretty much a perfect day. […]

Well it really has been an extraordinary week for me! Very occasionally I get offers that are hard to turn down. A few months ago I was asked by a company that make pacemakers (amongst a great many other medical things) if they could show me around their factory and pick my brains. There have […]

You may know I’m a keen Arsenal fan, so whenever a story crops up involving the club I tend to take a look, and so it was this week with former Gunners mid-fielder Jack Wilshere. He is a British Heart Foundation ambassador, having been on a long journey with his young daughter who had surgery […]

I had a great time at last week’s conference in Lisbon. Sat on the flight home, I was reflecting on what were the most enjoyable bits.  I liked the ‘late breaking scientific sessions’, where researchers first let the scientific community know the results of their trials. There’s something about hearing new data, feeling like you […]

Back to the theme of dementia, and we are at week 3. A question I have asked myself many times is can dementia be prevented? Billions are spent looking for treatments, and hopefully success will come, but what if there were ways we could reduce our risk in the first place? Primary prevention is the […]

For over a decade, scientists have thought that if amyloid protein is the primary problem in dementia, the key to treatment must be drugs which reduce its production or stimulate its clearance from the brain. Initial efforts however, whilst they reduced the amount of protein, did little to improve clinical symptoms and outcomes.  Studies are […]