Excerpt : Despite advances in technology, cardiovascular death rates remain stagnant. Interventional cardiologist Dr. Koushik Reddy argues for a radical paradigm shift—moving the foundation of care from the cath lab to the “kitchen table.” Learn how he uses the “CARROTS” framework to integrate lifestyle medicine into critical cardiac care.
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