Healthcare Professionals for Heart Disease
The Most Important Person on Your Healthcare TeamYou are the most important person in treating and managing your coronary heart disease, or CHD. That's because you are the only one who can:
- alert others when you are having a heart emergency and need their help
- follow up with your treatment plan
- keep track of how you feel each day
- know what effect CHD is having on your life
- make the lifestyle choices you need to make, such as losing weight
- take medicines exactly as prescribed
Others on your healthcare team can help. But they can't do these things for you.
To treat CHD, you need to make healthy choices about your daily habits. Those choices involve such things as what you eat, how much you exercise, and whether you smoke or drink alcohol. You will likely need to take medicines. You may also need surgery or some other procedure. All of these things mean you'll need help from a number of professionals.