Treatments for Preventing Heart Disease
Tailored Treatments to Deliver Personalized Prevention Care
Recognizing your risks for heart disease is the first and most important step to a healthier lifestyle. From there, our team can personalize a plan that will slow the progression of existing disease or reduce your chances of developing heart disease moving forward. We offer comprehensive treatment options that combine therapies from cardiology, endocrinology, sleep medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychology and more that are customized to your specific need and goal. Your plan could include:
Medications
When needed, we recommend medications to control high blood pressure, lower cholesterol or improve the pumping ability of the heart.
We also manage statin side effects/intolerance for patients who cannot use statin medications to treat high cholesterol, which includes providing alternatives therapies for high cholesterol.
Nutrition
We have skilled nutritionists available to work with any patients who could reduce their heart risk by creating healthy eating plans for long-term success.
Stress management program
Psychiatrists and psychologists regularly help patients identify and manage stress that may aggravate heart problems.
Cross-Specialty Clinics
We offer access to cross-specialty clinics dedicated to managing prevention for comorbidities that can lead to heart disease:
Clinical Trials for Heart Disease Prevention
Along with our multidisciplinary approach to care, our physicians and researchers are actively involved in ongoing research to further understand that impact heart disease. We are committed to innovating and advancing care through clinical trials that offer our patients new treatments. Our physicians and researchers are working closely together to transform basic research into bedside care for our patients through clinical trials that provide novel therapies before they are widely available.
Medication That Reduces Cardiovascular Events Could Improve in Older Patients
Dr. Tamara Polonsky’s trial focuses on using medication, specifically statins – a type of cholesterol-lowering drug – designed to help older patients (75 and older) maintain their health by preventing fatal cardiovascular events, and evaluating how this medication could also improve cognition overtime. We already know that statins are life-saving for patients who have had a heart attack or stroke, and through this trial, our researchers will not only will be monitoring heart events, but will also test our patients' memory, thinking and physical abilities. The work being done in this trial will help us understand whether statins can prolong health in older adults, and will help clarify which older adults might benefit the most from taking statins.
New Interventional Therapy for Resistant Hypertension
Dr. Sandeep Nathan is leading a team that is doing clinical trials using renal denervation to treat resistant hypertension. UChicago Medicine is among a small group of national medical centers offers a potentially groundbreaking new interventional therapy for the treatment of resistant hypertension. Renal denervation (RDN) is a catheter-based, nonsurgical approach where radiofrequency energy is delivered to the lining of the arteries of the kidneys (renal arteries) in order to heat up (ablate) the nerves that travel within the walls of the renal arteries that are responsible for the excessive blood pressure response. To date, over a dozen trials have documented the safety of this procedure and this current investigation seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of RDN in a larger and more diverse patient population.
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