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Crucial Connection: Loneliness, Fasting Glucose, Menopause and Heart Health

Open Heart Surgery with Boots
Open Heart Surgery with Boots
Episode • Apr 30, 2024 • 23m

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Boots brings you heart news that caught her eye for the month of April in a new monthly segment! Let Boots know what you want to hear more of or less of by sending her an email boots@theheartchamberpodcast.com

Risk of heart disease rises sharply in women after menopause, study - Times of India (indiatimes.com)

Artificial intelligence shows that social isolation impacts cardiovascular age and mortality rate - Mayo Clinic

4-year-old who received new heart after waiting 1,025 days goes home from hospital - ABC News

Research uncovers hidden link between heart attacks and cancer - ISRAEL21c

Blake Hospital performs first minimally invasive mitral valve repair (mysuncoast.com)

Longitudinal blood glucose level and increased silent myocardial infarction: a pooled analysis of four cohort studies | Cardiovascular Diabetology | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

Boots Knighton has been an educator since the late 1990s in all facets of education including high school science, middle school mathematics, elementary reading, college level ecology, ski instruction, backpacking, and experiential education. Her greatest teacher has been her heart thanks to a surprise diagnosis in 2020 (during the pandemic) of three different congenital heart defects. She is now thriving after her open-heart surgery on January 15, 2021 and is on a mission to raise awareness through her podcast, The Heart Chamber: patient stories of open-heart surgery and recovery, that heart surgery can be an incredible opportunity to begin again in life and live life wide open.


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**I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice. Be sure to check in with your care team about all the next right steps for you and your heart.**

How to connect with Boots

Email: Boots@theheartchamberpodcast.com

Instagram: @openheartsurgerywithboots or @boots.knighton

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Boots Knighton

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