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MarcKatzMD
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I'm a board certified internist and non-invasive cardiologist practicing in Jersey City, NJ. I share medical education content focusing on cardiovascular disease for patients, their family members, and medical trainees to better understand cardiology. For medical trainees, I share tips and tricks to traverse the hidden curriculum of medical training and how to succeed after graduating from a Caribbean medical school.
High Blood Pressure: What Your Cardiologist Wants You to Know About Hypertension
High blood pressure is a silent killer because it can cause damage to your body without causing any symptoms. In this video I review the basics of what I share with my patients when discussing high blood pressure.
I review how we diagnose high blood pressure, how to take your blood pressure at home, non-pharmacologic diet and lifestyle changes you can implement today to lower your blood pressure naturally, and a brief review of the three classes of medications that we use to treat high blood pressure.
I hope that by the end of this video you are able to better understand a chronic condition that impacts millions of individuals worldwide and help empower you to better understand and control your hypertension. And if you take one lesson from this video it is that we typically start treating high blood pressure when either the top number (systolic) s greater than 130 or the bottom number (diastolic) is greater than 80.
*This video is purely for educational purposes and is not meant to replace medical care. So if you have follow up questions about this video drop them in the comments but I cannot provide personalized medical advise.
Check out my other social channels:
- Blog: marckatzmd.com/
- Instagram: kittykatzmd?hl=en
- TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@marckatzmd
- Twitter: kittykatzmd?lang=en
#Cardiology #Cardiologist #LifeOfACardiologist #Residency #InternalMedicine #Fellowship
I review how we diagnose high blood pressure, how to take your blood pressure at home, non-pharmacologic diet and lifestyle changes you can implement today to lower your blood pressure naturally, and a brief review of the three classes of medications that we use to treat high blood pressure.
I hope that by the end of this video you are able to better understand a chronic condition that impacts millions of individuals worldwide and help empower you to better understand and control your hypertension. And if you take one lesson from this video it is that we typically start treating high blood pressure when either the top number (systolic) s greater than 130 or the bottom number (diastolic) is greater than 80.
*This video is purely for educational purposes and is not meant to replace medical care. So if you have follow up questions about this video drop them in the comments but I cannot provide personalized medical advise.
Check out my other social channels:
- Blog: marckatzmd.com/
- Instagram: kittykatzmd?hl=en
- TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@marckatzmd
- Twitter: kittykatzmd?lang=en
#Cardiology #Cardiologist #LifeOfACardiologist #Residency #InternalMedicine #Fellowship
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Difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest
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Differences between a heart attack and cardiac arrest. A heart attack is a sudden blockage in the arteries that supply the heart. Cardiac arrest is electrical instability that causes the heart to be unable to pump efficiently caused by several potentially life-threatening abnormal rhythms. The most importance similarity? Prompt, and effective CPR, when necessary, can help save a patient’s life...
How to Identify Sinus Rhythm on ECG
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How to identify sinus rythm on ECG- I'll give you a hint, it's NOT a 'P-wave before every QRS. Not sure where in medical education this came from (and no judgement bc I remember during med school being educated on this topic too). The answer is actually even more simple! Just look for upright P-waves inferiorly and inverted in aVR #cardiology #cardiologist #internalmedicine #fellowship #cardiol...
Basic ECG Tip: guess this cardiac telemetry diagnosis
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Basic ECG tip to make you better at interpreting cardiac telemetry. Can you guess this common cardiac telemetry misdiagnosis? #Cardiology #ECGtip #MedSchoolTip #NursingTip #CardiacTelemetry
How Much Money Do Cardiologist Make?
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Every year the Doximity physician compensation report answers the simple question: how much money do doctors make? The issue with this physician survey is that they lump several subspecialties into one big group. For instance, Doximity only shows 'cardiology' salary instead of more accurately explaining that 'cardiology' includes (1) interventional cardiology, (2) electrophysiology, (3) advance...
Health Life Hack: everything in moderation
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Video description *This video is purely for educational purposes and is not meant to replace medical care. So if you have follow up questions about this video drop them in the comments but I cannot provide personalized medical advise. Check out my other social channels: - Blog: marckatzmd.com/ - Instagram: kittykatzmd?hl=en - TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@marckatzmd - Twitter: twitter....
Why patients with #ChestPain often leave the #EmergencyDepartment without a diagnosis
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What are Palpitations? Check out the full YouTube video for more details #cardiology
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What are Palpitations? Check out the full CZcams video for more details #cardiology
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How to Take Your Blood Pressure At Home
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A Day In The Life of A Cardiology Fellow
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Lyme Disease and Complete Heart Block: How Lyme Disease Can Affect The Heart
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I am in highschool and want to become a cardiologist so please wish me luck
The virus lunacy again.
Sir do you earn 600k dollars a year as a cardiologist? Plz reply in yes or no. Thanks a lot.
@marcKatzmd Great Video. I have been hearing how current thinking indicates that Triglycerides are more important than LDL because Triglycerides become the much more dangerous VLDL. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
I have a new video coming out soon on cholesterol and will answer this question in greater detail but generally LDL, ApoB, and LpA are more important than TG. Persostently elevated TG are not to be ignored so I certainly care about TG but LDL is still largely a greater focus
@@MarcKatzMD I am looking forward to your new video. I hope you address these two issues (1) The Framingham heart study showed a 30% increase in CVD associated with high LDL but an 80% increase in CVD due to TG 2) LDL (as you stated) is correlated with increased CVD but there is no causation rationale. The folks who believe TG is the issue believe that inflammation caused by sugar, smoking, and alcohol attracts the LDL as the LDL is trying to heal the artery. Blaming the LDL for CVD is like blaming the scar for the knife wound.
I’ve just had this I can’t take ibuprofen because I am asthmatic so had to use Codeine
Lol. I thought it was an issue only here in Pakistan. I guess cardiology and pre-op risk assessment is the same all over the world. 😅
Very confident doctor. I have a few questions: What if Crp reduces but Esr remain in 40s? Is a thin film of about 3mm of PE of any significance? Does the patient keep on repeating 2-D echo to see that quantity of fluid is not increasing? If so how often? Any other diagnostic tests? Lastly can the fluid go away in its own ?
While AI can help physicians with a variety of activities, it cannot take the place of the human touch and knowledge that are necessary to deliver high-quality medical care.
Disagree. After I have seen many other cardiologists speak.
@@AmandaViolinGirl what cardiologist?
@@MarcKatzMD cardiologists who don't advise the same diet as you do or statins.
@@AmandaViolinGirl I promote low saturated fat diets
@@MarcKatzMD and that is where you have gone wrong! Demonizing saturated fat has been the biggest health blunder. Statins are one of the most widely prescribed drugs and heart disease is going up not down. LDL is NOT the cause. Insulin resistance and inflammation is.
@@AmandaViolinGirl agree to disagree
Sir i am bit little confuse I've heard surgeons are physicians to so when a cardiac surgeon can do surgery and prescribe medicine than why are cardiologist made , like when a general surgeon can do surgery and gives medicine for general disease than why internal medicine doctors are made
Best analysis on CZcams.
Cardiology ❤️
Elevated homocysteine and inflammation play as much or more role in heart attack and stroke. Cut out seed oils and eat more animal fat including butter and ghee.
I strongly disagree with you
My calcium score is 4500
Very helpful!!!!
what bothers me the most is the fear that blocks AI from being develloped for the greater good , i see no problem from having a doctor that is more capable in the field of medecine , AI needs alot of training to reach such stage but humans (goverments) are blocking the way already.
My stress test was great..but have build up in 6 arteries. God willing I can make it into my 80s.
My husband had a zero calcium score but a 90 percent blockage!!!! Now he has a stent. ❤❤❤❤❤
Yikes 😮
😮 how was that explained?
I appreciated the way you explain this. Genetically I got it. Build up in 6 arteries. My score was 370. I am 61 and going for an updated c t next week. I love the way you are explaining this. Thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤
I got it 😊
Sir please tell what is the thing that cardiologist can do and cardiac surgeon can't i mean surgeons are physicians to so they can prescribe medicine they also studied medicine so what is the use of cardiologists
I just had chest pain watching this! 😂
HAHAHA! I’m also cardiology 🫀 and yes, this convo about SSI/Lantus make me feel like an “ortho bro” when I have to ask the hospitalist to help manage it.😂
Wait, where do you typically click to increase lead gain?
If you can’t on the computer, you can change gain while getting the ecg itself
Great video! In my town, anxiety is much more likely to be the original cause of palpitations and sinus tachycardia... 😂😂
Amazing! Was looking for the explanation of what exactly is “sinus” rhythm and there was no clear criteria mentioned anywhere ! Thanks ! You should create more such videos :)
What if you do not have high cholesterol? Do you need to have this test? I have an A1C of 5.7 and my doctor wants me to take a statin or get this test. I opted for the test because I don’t want to take a statin. What are your thought about this if a patient doesn’t have high cholesterol
Roughly how many people who apply for cardiology fellowships get in?
Just as many people with low cholesterol as high have atherosclerosis and heart attacks. Stop making cholesterol the villain. Cholesterol is essential to good health and quality of life. Look instead at fasting blood sugar and triglycerides. Both should be under 85. You are pretty young - still being taught incorrect info in med school 😮
@@judyculang3766 That is incorrect. Individuals with higher cholesterol have a higher long-term risk of heart attack. It doesn’t mean that you will have one but it does mean you have an intrinsically higher risk. Additionally, the triglyceride goal is less than 150mg/dL fasting or less than 175mg/dL non-fasting. Certainly, I agree that controlling diabetes can help improve your cardiovascular risk. I also partially agree that cholesterol is an imperfect bio marker but it is one of the tools we try to use to help reduce our patient’s risk of heart disease.
I really enjoyed this video 👍
Thank you for this video. Should the individual vessel scores, LM, LAD, LCX, RCA, and Other Agatston scores, add up to the Total Agatston score? I ask because mine do not, and I want to know if that is an error. Want to know if there was a calculation error, or if there is something more to calculating the total score than those individual scores.
Agatston score is completely separate and nothing to do with the actual calcifications. Total individual arteries should add up to total calcium score
My husband just had ablation surgery last week for A-fib. He was diagnosed with A-fib and heart failure just under two years ago. All the cardiologists he saw in the last two years put him on beta blockers and other meds to control it. Since the procedure the A-fib is gone but he’s still very winded. The night after the surgery he had a heart attack. My husband has never had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or clogged arteries. This was a sudden thing when it hit. Two years before this issue hit him he had Lyme disease confirmed with bloodwork. Every GP,nurse,cardiologist, or any health care worker I asked about Lyme-carditis just looked at me like I was nuts. Not one of them had even heard of it. We are located in B.C. Canada and the healthcare system made him wait two full years until the meds began to fail him. He never took the experimental-RNA injection nor did he ever have Covid. What do you suggest we do at this point? Should he go on antibiotics to kill off the bacteria again? Please answer.
Definitely helpful for making personal decisions on choosing a specialty, however, when interviewing for a residency application, you cannot say that "because I don't enjoy anything else", right?🤣
@@user-cw8wr5mm5y ha most definitely. I think I recall on interviews saying something about enjoying the basics of medicine, being able to have the combination of inpatient acute care, and being able to be someone’s primary doctor in the outpatient setting
Is hat inside the mind of a cat?
No amount of alcohol consumption is safe. Cardiovascular disease goes down, cancer rate goes in the opposite direction.
Is it dangerous for someone who has hypertension (under medication) to move to a high elevation place, like Denver, Colorado, or Flagstaff, Arizona?
I don’t see why it would be. Certainly can check your BP before/after the move to see if elevation made a clinically significant impact on your BP and if it sustained or resolved over time
@@MarcKatzMD From the American College of Cardiology: "High Altitude Exposure Among People With Cardiovascular Conditions" The article lists 8 areas of concern at high altitude, although their measure is at about 8,200 feet above sea level. I wasn't sure if that meant there is no concern at higher elevations below that mark, or if any impact would be negligible, even under physical exercise conditions, in general.
I had long term lyme, and did discover it when get a ACA on mine left lower leg, who was not directly seen by a doctor. I have done tetst and had a antibiotic course for a month where the ACA did fade a way, this is a year ago now, I do not now if I had long term lyme or not, I do not now if a ACA spot on a leg can also occur with short time infection or is there in stead of a normal bulls eye, I did see on pictures earlyer like 2019 I had no aca spot. I have now heart trouble, I have ectopics, more specific I had tests in hospital, like a echo, stresstest, 2 day holter, where nothing was seen, it is benign, but this do not mean that it do feel fine, sometimes I feel the heart jumping and comlete off, and feel in the body that bloodflow is altered, but have not yet get a blackout or dizzy. I comke to mine question now, is it possible the lyme is still there, because of pain in the feets, and silly feeling in hands or body, I had by the way big stress period, and this was a big problem making mine live miserable, caused by a nabure. I have naver experience a heart block like you tell here, except maybe the first grade who is with ectopics but on the ecg there is no block, machine says I have a sinusaritmie, special a supraventrical extrasystoles with abarancy conduction. I ask myself it lyme can also cause this or so, I had a dermatitis borellia, a version of it who cause skin problems. I can afcourse do a test with antibiotics for 2 weeks and see what happens.
Habibi, come to India😂
I’m 20 and been dealing with it for about two weeks now it slowed down some but I’m still not mentally the same does this stuff get better and will I have to live the rest of my life like this?
How much extra can we make by serving in rural area
I want to know what the numbers next to each coronary artery means that when added gives you your total CAC score, ex: left main coronary artery:59 left anterior descending artery:174, you get what I’m asking. Please and thank you
Ai is still at infant stage
I'm a 14 year old guy. My pain is very weird. I have been experincing some sudden chest pains for a while when exercising but for the last 4 days its been completely different. I first felt it when i lied down to sleep and i felt like something was pressuring my heart (left side of my chest). When i woke up i felt a weird, pain towards the left side of my chest. Over the last few days the pain was changing a lot. Most of the times it was on the left side of my chest. Sometimes I felt pressuring, burning, stabbing, but most of the time discomfort. I have to hold my hand on the left side of my chest for a while to relax. Also while that i was very stressed and i even started crying, the pain felt worse when i did that. I was always overthinking shit. That pain was lasting for 2 days when i decided to go the doc. I did a blood test and ecg, the blood test turned out to be fantastic but at the ecg i was VERY STRESSED OUT, it turned out to be like 107 bpm or smt i think? Im pretty sure its not normal but at the first ecg i had it was way more, i was way more stressed by that time. When i did the blood test the nurse missed my vein at the left hand, and at the right hand she didnt. I took a nap for like 5 hours and slept for well over 10 hours that day. When i woke up today after that i felt dizziness, numbness in my left arm and i felt like my pain became slightly worse. My anxiety was insane. As im writing this its currently 3:30am and i can't fall asleep due to the annoying pain. I don't know what to do and i think i should go to a more proffesional doctor and seek more help to make sure its nothing that bad... what do i do??
You should start an ekg series
Too bad they don’t seem to care about your medication side effects
Marc, with all respect, your standard dietary advice based on the discredited lipid/heart hypothesis is woefully out of date.
@@stephenduplantier2151 what would you recommend?
I found some of the information in this video useful but then toward the end, the doc turned out to merely be a pill pusher. I’m sure it was what he was taught but what used to be universally true has been proven wrong many times.
@@dmoe0911 My simple goal is to lower my patients ASCVD risk but I’m open to better understanding your perspective. What specifically has been proven wrong?
@@MarcKatzMDthe world being flat for one. I don’t doubt for one second that your intentions are pure. You talked way more about statins than lifestyle. As you are probably aware, many CZcams doctors downplay their usefulness while not totally denying all benefits. It’s my understanding that diabetes and insulin resistance have a much larger role in CVD than cholesterol and that can be overcome with lifestyle.
Fair point. The main purpose of this video was to explain the reasoning behind a coronary artery calcium score and pathophysiology of atherosclerosis. Your point is heard and that’s why I’m actively working on a video specifically for HLD which will include discussion on nutrition and lifestyle and their benefits and limitations as well
@@MarcKatzMDyou have earned a new subscriber. Thank you!
I want to study medicine after I graduate from high school, but I do not know whether artificial intelligence will replace doctors. Do you advise me to study medicine?
@@user-mf6tx9sg3k AI won’t replace doctors. If anything doctors will use AI to hopefully do their jobs better and/or more efficiently
Iabp
Hi doctor katz i am 13 year old indian and i want to be non interventional cardiologist in usa can u show me day in life as non interventional cardiologist please so it will be helping me to pursue that carrer Thankyou so much dr katz Have a nice day bye😊🎉