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ll of a sudden, I was getting pains in my chest,” he recalls. “I thought maybe I was getting sick. I couldn’t believe it but they took me to a local Miami hospital and the doctors there discovered I had a blocked artery. My wife Joy flew down to join me and I had to have an angioplasty.”
number one cause of death in America. Philbin now aims to be a success story, not a statistic.
The process was a success and Philbin continued on with his busy lifestyle. But 15 years later, his heart health problems returned. “I found out in 2007 that I had to have triple bypass surgery,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t sleep the night before. At 6 a.m. they rolled me into the operating room. I was there at the hospital for the next week, walking up and down the hallways.”
It has been ten years since Philbin’s triple bypass surgery, and since then he has been working diligently to ensure he makes it another 10 or more without a heart episode. Today, Philbin works to protect his heart health and keep his cholesterol in check with a simple and effective plan — he monitors his diet strictly, mostly choosing chicken and fish over beef, and follows a strict treatment regimen that includes the right statin medication for him. “I know every day my statin is working to control my cholesterol,” he said.
Helping to Protect Heart Health High cholesterol affects over 100 million Americans and is a major risk factor for heart disease — the
Lipid expert Dr. Eliot Brinton, M.D., president of the Utah Lipid Center and Fellow of the Fellow of the American Heart Association and National Lipid
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