Our staff of female cardiologists provides each patient with personalized information about her risk profile and ways to reduce the development or progression of the disease.

Cardiovascular risk evaluations include a lipid profile and a fasting blood glucose.

Patients are encouraged to exercise, follow a healthy diet, lose weight if necessary, quit smoking, and deal more effectively with stress.

The clinic offers a Web-based walking club and smoking cessation classes as well as periodic risk-factor screening sessions in the community using the Framingham Point Score Estimate of 10-Year Risk for Women.

We follow the American Heart Association's evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women, offering treatments and therapies proven beneficial for heart disease, including:

• Statins
• Beta-blockers
• ACE inhibitors
• Aspirin
• Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
• Angioplasty
• Cardiac bypass surgery

In addition, one of our cardiologists, Karen P. Alexander, MD, specializes in the care of geriatric patients.

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Al Khatib, Sana M.
• Alexander, Karen P.
• Douglas, Pamela S.
• Greenfield, Ruth A.
• Kachhy, Radha Goel
• Newby, L. Kristin
• Shah, Svati H.

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Cardiology of Raleigh
  3480 Wake Forest Road, Suite 410, Raleigh, NC 27609
• Duke Health Center at North Duke Street
  3116 North Duke Street, Durham, NC 27704
• Duke Health Center at Southpoint
  6301 Herndon Road, Durham, NC 27713
• Duke Health Center of Cary
  3700 NW Cary Parkway, Suite 100, Cary, NC 27513