{"id":4461,"date":"2015-07-22T05:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T05:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlinecprcertification.net\/blog\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:02:16","slug":"clogged-artery-images-help-patients-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinecprcertification.net\/blog\/clogged-artery-images-help-patients-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Clogged Artery Images help Patients Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The study on the benefits of showing patients their clogged artery images<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">One hundred and eighty nine\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">heart patients<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0who had been recently diagnosed with early stage coronary diseases were used to determine if visually seeing the images of their clogged arteries would make any difference in how well they followed the treatment plans devised by their cardiologist.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Half of the patients were shown their CT images, and half of them were simply told about the condition of their arteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">The nurse practitioner doing the research informed all of the patients about the link between coronary artery calcifications, or clogged arteries, and the risk of greater health problems. Needless to say, one of the main concerns is problems of the heart. This shows how important it is to have people who have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinecprcertification.net\/healthcareprovidercprcourse.php\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">CPR first aid certification<\/span><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><b> <\/b>take care of patients with clogged arteries. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">All one hundred and eighty nine participants were counseled on the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smoking and their need to stop smoking if they were still actively smoking<\/li>\n<li>Healthy dietary changes they should make<\/li>\n<li>Losing weight if they were over weight<\/li>\n<li>Exercises they should include in their daily routines<\/li>\n<li>Controlling their blood pressure<\/li>\n<li>Lowering their bad cholesterol, with statin drugs, and through lifestyle changes<\/li>\n<li>Including a low dose aspirin to their daily regimen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The results<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">The people who were shown the images of their clogged arteries were more likely to do the things their cardiologist recommended to improve their heart health. These people took their coronary conditions more seriously, and approached the necessary changes more readily than the people who did not see their CT images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Nine percent of the people who were shown their CT images continued to smoke tobacco products. In comparison, twenty two percent of the patients who were not shown their CT images continued to smoke tobacco products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Forty four percent of the people who saw their clogged arteries continued to eat unhealthy foods, but sixty four percent of the people who did not see their images continued with the diet they had been following.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What this means for the future<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">With results as astounding as these doctors are likely to start showing their heart patients their CT images in the hopes that they can convince them that the only way to save their own lives is to make the changes recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">This information provides doctors with another tool that will help them to arm their patients for their battle with coronary\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">artery diseases<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">. The more people understand the dangers the more likely they are to make the changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">This could potentially reduce the number of patients who have major cardiac events after they are diagnosed with clogged arteries. This could be a life altering tool that could reduce healthcare costs, and deaths in the United States for people with coronary conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More Studies are needed<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">More in depth studies are needed to show exactly how beneficial showing patients their images of their clogged arteries will be. The current results are enough to convince most doctors that show and tell may help their patients get well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study on the benefits of showing patients their clogged artery images One hundred and eighty nine\u00a0heart patients\u00a0who had been recently diagnosed with early stage coronary diseases were used to determine if visually seeing the images of their clogged arteries would make any difference in how well they followed the treatment plans devised by their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO 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