Your Arteries--An Owner's Manual

This book, based on 40 peer-reviewed medical journal articles, helps the reader understand heart disease, how early-stage heart disease may be detected, how healthy choices and/or statin therapy may slow or stop the progression of heart disease, and how stopping progression of heart disease may prevent a heart attack, a stroke, or vascular dementia. The book has nine chapters and an appendix:

1. Heart Disease is A Disease of the Arteries

2. How Arteries Get Clogged Even with a “Normal” Cholesterol Level

3. Limiting Artery Clogging at an Early Stage Can Protect Your Health

4. Should You Get Tested for Artery Clogging?

5. How to Get Tested for Artery Clogging

6. If You Have Artery Clogging: Healthy Choices

7. If You Have Artery Clogging: Statin Therapy

8. How Safe Are Statins?

9. When to Seek Out a Preventive Cardiologist

Appendix: Directory of Preventive Cardiologists in the U.S.