If you have been diagnosed with heart failure, your heart is already working overtime to do its job: pumping nutrient-rich blood throughout the body. One of the most effective ways to give your heart a break and improve your heart failure symptoms, according to Cardiologist Dennis A. Goodman, MD, is to quit smoking.
Dr. Goodman is board-certified in cardiology, internal medicine, lipidology, integrative medicine, and cardiac CT. He is the director of integrative medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center and a clinical professor of medicine at NYU.
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