Cardiologists at Duke use the latest diagnostic techniques to accurately assess patients’ risk for heart disease.

Our team of cardiologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, exercise physiologists, nutritionists, and psychologists then work to give patients a comprehensive, customized plan using scientifically proven medical and lifestyle therapies to improve heart health and minimize their risk for serious illness.

Lifestyle Therapies

Diet, exercise, and other lifestyle choices can be as important as medications, diagnostic tests, and surgeries.

The Duke Center for Living offers assistance in lifestyle therapies such as smoking cessation, diet modification, stress management, and exercise.

Patients also have access to regular reassessment of their risk factors and heart health.

Risk evaluations cover established risk factors such as high blood pressure; high cholesterol and triglycerides; smoking; and family history of heart disease, as well as novel risk factors identified by scientific studies.

These novel risk factors include:

• Metabolic syndrome (abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and abnormal blood sugar levels)
  
• A sedentary lifestyle
  
• Certain types of blood lipids
  
• Biochemical markers such as C-reactive protein
  
• Vascular reactivity
  
• Carotid intima medial thickness

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Blazing, Michael A.
• Kraus, William E.
• Ohman, E. Magnus

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Center for Living
  3475 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705
• Duke Raleigh Hospital
  3400 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609