Cardiology | Cardiologists | Iowa Clinic

The Sound of an Emergency Doctors routinely use stethoscopes to listen for abnormalities in heart and lung function. Recently, the instrument helped Frank Haugland, M.D., save Ava Davidsons life. It was an amazing and unusual thing, says Frank Haugland, M.D., Ph.D., a Cardiologist and Cardioelectrophysiologist with The Iowa Clinic. In my career, I will likely never again hear what I heard that day. The Sound It was early April 2014. Ava Davidson, then 56, had just arrived by ambulance at Read More Cholesterol: Now Just One Piece of the Heart-Risk Puzzle Whether or not you need to be on cholesterol-lowering medication is no longer tied solely to your cholesterol numbers.The traditional approach to lowering risk of heart attack, stroke, and death has been to lower heart-clogging LDL (bad cholesterol) levels in the blood to less than 100 mg/dL even less for some patients. But new guidelines released in November by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology take a more holistic approach Read More What Does Sex Have To Do With Heart Disease? Everyone knows that men and women are very different. But not everyone knows that our hearts are as well not to scare you, but heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the United States and men and women share in it pretty much equally. One person will have a heart attack every 34 seconds in the United States, says Nasser Khan, M.D., a Cardiologist with The Iowa Clinic. The good news: Read More

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Cardiology | Cardiologists | Iowa Clinic