Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast

Ashish Sarraju, MD, and Leslie Cho, MD, discuss the latest cholesterol guidelines and why understanding lifetime risk is key to preventing heart disease and stroke. They explain early testing, lifestyle changes and personalized care to help people take control of their heart health over time.

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Francis Caputo, MD, explains how abdominal aortic aneurysms are monitored and when treatment is recommended based on size, risk and overall health. He also discusses symptoms, screening, lifestyle factors and the differences between surgical and endovascular repair.

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This episode is an encore presentation of "Myths on Dieting and Heart Health," which originally premiered on April 15, 2025. 

With so much diet and nutrition advice available, it's hard to know who to trust when it comes to heart-healthy eating. Experts Leslie Cho, MD, and Julia Zumpano, RD, LD, discuss the best foods for heart health while debunking some common diet myths.

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Michael Zhen-Yu Tong, MD, and Sanjeeb Bhattacharya, MD, discuss what patients can expect during the first year after a heart transplant, including recovery, medications and monitoring for rejection. They explain how lifestyle changes, support systems and follow-up care shape long-term health and quality of life.

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Tamanna Singh, MD, answers the most common heart health questions from athletes and highly active individuals. She breaks down common risk factors, symptoms to watch for, screening tests and how lifestyle, family history and wearable data can help guide heart health decisions.

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Oussama Wazni, MD, MBA, and Mohamed Kanj, MD, discuss how combining atrial fibrillation ablation with left atrial appendage closure can improve outcomes for patients with AFib. They explain how this approach may reduce stroke risk, limit long-term medication use and offer a more efficient path to restoring normal heart rhythm.

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Grant Reed, MD, and Laura Young, MD, explain how coronary artery disease develops, what symptoms to watch for and when stenting is recommended. They walk through what patients can expect before, during and after a minimally invasive stent procedure, along with how newer technologies are improving outcomes and long-term heart health.

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Vascular surgeons Gayan De Silva, MD, and Kathleen Boyle, DO, explain how sclerotherapy is used to treat spider veins for both cosmetic and symptom relief. They discuss who may benefit from treatment, what the procedure is like, expected results over time and common reasons more than one treatment may be needed.

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In this episode, Samir Kapadia, MD, and Ohad Oren, MD, explain clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or CHIP, and how age-related blood cell mutations can raise the risk of heart disease. They discuss what CHIP is, who it affects, how it is discovered, and why it matters for understanding cardiovascular risk beyond traditional factors.

Learn more about CHIP. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/clonal-hematopoiesis-of-indeterminate-potential-chip

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Milind Desai, MD, and Nicholas Smedira, MD, explain how hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is diagnosed and how treatment decisions are made based on symptoms, heart structure and individual goals. They discuss medications, surgical myectomy and emerging innovations that are shaping care for people living with this condition.

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