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Saving Money While Protecting Your Health in Tough Economic Times
Date:3/23/2009

Milwaukee MD Saves Patients Money and Improves Health With Advanced but Affordable Diagnostics

MILWAUKEE, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- To save you money and save your health in these tough economic times, your physician may need to be part medical detective as well as a skilled medical doctor.

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"Health issues are not always what they first appear to be," explains Tara Dall, MD, medical director of the Advanced Lipidology Early Detection Center for Heart Disease and Diabetes (in Delafield, a Milwaukee suburb). "Advanced but affordable diagnostic tools can save you money and enhance your health. They can mean a world of difference to you and your whole family."

What Caused Barb's Sudden Heart Attack?

When wife, mom and runner Barb Hankwitz had a sudden and unexplained heart attack several years ago, Dr. Dall used an advanced diagnostic tool (NMR LipoProfile) to detect the presence of heart disease risk which traditional tests had failed to find. The diagnostic assesses the number of lipoprotein particles in the blood -- which, if the number becomes too high, triggers the molecules to penetrate the artery wall and quietly but lethally clog and choke the arteries.

Today Barb is a heart health advocate who spreads the word to women about the importance of using advanced tools and also helps to educate women about the surprisingly different heart attack warning symptoms women may experience compar
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SOURCE Advanced Lipidology Early Detection Center for Heart Disease & Diabetes
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