Heart to Heart

摘要

For all the strides we've made against heart disease, it still accounts for 26 percent of all deaths in the U.S. This year alone, it will cost $316 billion in health care, medications, and lost productivity. A push for better preventive care hasn't solved the problem. And advances in the field aren't being incorporated into practice routinely or quickly enough, newsweek gathered four cardiologists to discuss the future of the field. Senior writer Claudia Kalb spoke with Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, president of Brigham & Women's Hospital and former director of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute; Dr.Paul Ridker, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Brigham & Women's Hospital; Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Transla-tional Science Institute and chief medical officer of the West Wireless Health Institute; and Dr. Clyde Yancy, president of the American Heart Associationand medical director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute.