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You Just Found Out You Have High Triglycerides—Here Are 6 Things Cardiologists Recommend Doing

When it comes to heart health, cholesterol gets all the attention. But there’s another blood test that speaks volumes about your heart health: triglycerides. Triglycerides are a type of fat in your bloodstream. We get them from eating fat-containing foods, like butter and oils.

Elevated triglyceride levels increase the risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks, strokes and chronic inflammation of the blood vessels

Khanh-Van Tran, M.D., Ph.D. | Physicians, Cardiology, UMass Memorial Medical Center
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Shields and UMMH advancing access to innovative healthcare

New healthcare technology will soon be available to residents in Central Massachusetts as Shields Health strengthens its partnership with UMass Memorial Health with the addition of a first-of-its-kind PET/CT (Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography) scanner.

It can identify little spots of spread much earlier than the traditional MRI, CT scan or bone scan would do, so it just helps so much of the management.

Dr. Mitchell Sokoloff | Chair, Department of Urology
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