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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on cardiac rehab. We've got a wonderful guest with us. We'll get to that in a second. My name is Stan Chandling. I'm one of the co-hosts for the show, along with my other Host for the show is Clarence Jones, who you'll be hearing from throughout this show as well.
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With that, I'd like to introduce our guest today is Dr. Randall Thomas, who's a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, Alex School of Medicine, and is a consultant in preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic. His clinical research has focused primarily on preventive cardiology.
We'll get into the aspects of prevention, the primary prevention and the secondary in our discussions, and also, obviously, in cardiac rehab. He's held many leadership roles in this arena. and is very, very well respected, not only at the state level, but also nationally as well. So Dr. Thomas, thank you. Thank you so much for being with us today.
Great to be here with you. Thanks.
Yeah. So, all right, let's start out first of all, cardiac rehab. Why don't you give us like a little bit of a historical perspective on cardiac rehab as it stands and, you know, kind of bringing us up to the present.
Fair. Now, it's a really good place to start. It may seem pretty logical to us today that rehabilitation after a cardiac event just makes sense because it does. It hasn't always made sense. And in fact, looking back into the like in the early 1900s, even into the mid 1900s, it was thought that activity in people with heart conditions was harmful.
And he was, in fact, advised against in most cases. A good example of a turning point occurred when Dwight Eisenhower was serving as president of the United States and he had a heart attack. And all of his specialists gathered around him and said, okay, you need to get bed rest for six months. You need to curl back on your work in the White House. There's no way you can run for reelection.
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