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Balancing a Healthy LifestyleA Series of Educational Seminars for Patients presented by the office of Alexander F. Castellanos, M.D., Inc. Tipping the Scales on Vascular Disease April 5, 2005 Cholesterol - Good, Bad Triglycerides HbA1c Kidney Function Liver Function Vascular Function Vascular Disease Arteries open and close in all mammals including men and women Damage or Disease of your Circulatory System is called Vascular Disease Angiograms Miss Most Atheromas Conventional angiography fails to visualize 95%-99% of atherosclerotic plaque, Dr. Steven Nissen said at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Massive atheromas lurking within the vascular wall—outside the view of angiography—are the lesions that account for the two-thirds of myocardial infarctions that occur at sites with “hemodynamically insignificant stenosis.”  Factors for Increased Vascular Disease Emotions Fear Stress/Anxiety Anger Treatments and Medications that Worsen CVD Poor Nutrition Sedentary Lifestyle Increased Weight Fat and Vascular Disease New study links fat, inflammation and heart disease - Mar 31 (HeartCenterOnline). Study of the subcutaneous fat in 20 post-menopausal women who had risk factors that raise the risk of heart disease. The study was published in the April issue of the American Journal of Physiology. Main Findings: Fat may directly contribute to inflammation by producing inflammatory proteins Fat acts like a body organ capable of secreting hormones and proteins Fat suppresses anti-inflammatory proteins. Women with high levels of abdominal fat have higher levels of pro-inflammatory proteins and lower levels of anti- inflammatory proteins Hormones and Vascular Disease Womens Health Initiative s Anti estrogen agenda The interpretation of the most recent findings of the WHI is a perfect example of this. When the first arm of the WHI study showed a barely significant increase in breast cancer of