If you’ve experienced a heart attack, getting back into a fitness routine may seem scary—especially if you’ve ever felt heart disease symptoms during exercise. “A most common concern for a person after a heart attack about exercise is having another heart attack. And studies have shown that that risk is very low,” says cardiologist Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director at the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health at NYU Langone Health in New York City.
Dr. Goldberg is a Cardiologist and served as the Medical Director of the NYU Langone Health Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health. She is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Joan Pagano is an exercise physiologist in New York City.
Rachel Bond, MD, FACC, is a Cardiologist at Dignity Health and served as Associate Director of the Women's Heart Health Program at Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.
References
American Heart Association. (2015). Heart attack recovery FAQs.
American Heart Association. (2016). What is cardiac rehabilitation?
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