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LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART
Laughter balances your stress hormones, reduces inflammation in your arteries, and increases HDL or “good” cholesterol. These effects last at least for 24 hours, according to the American Heart Association.
Dr Johan Janssen has retired
Dr Johan Janssen was trained as a cardiologist in Maastricht, the Netherlands, under Professor Hein Wellens – one of the worlds’ pioneers in the study and treatment of cardiac arrhythmia’s.
After his PhD in cardiac imaging, he joined the faculty as an associate professor before he moved to Rotterdam as an interventional cardiologist.
He was subsequently asked to head a new cardiac development program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
After an exciting time in the Middle East, Dr Janssen and his family moved to Perth where he joined Western Cardiology.
His interest’s are preventative medicine, diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, aspects of alternative medicine and sports medicine and the heart.
Dr Janssen has numerous scientific publications and chapters in cardiology books and was awarded in 2016 the price for extraordinary service to rural Western Australia.
Dr Janssen has clinics in SJG Subiaco and SJG Midland Private and Public Hospitals, as well as in rooms at Kalgoorlie, Joondalup and Geraldton.
Ancient genes control your fate. You’ve always assumed that you would age much like your parents, but that can be far from the truth. Dr Janssen can help to identify your risk factors in your biome and offer solutions in your lifestyle to help prevent cardiovascular disease. 24-Hour BP Monitoring or Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) is a continuous test that measures the patient’s blood pressure as they do their normal daily routine. The test takes 24 hours normally that uses a small digital blood pressure device. A pacemaker is a medical device used to maintain adequate heart rate most commonly when that heart’s natural pacemaker is not fast enough by sending electrical impulses to the electrodes to contract the heart muscles. Holter monitoring is a procedure that uses a Holter monitor to keep track of the heart rhythm. Doctors can use the device to keep track of the patient’s heart function if one is experiencing heart problems or may think that there may be a problem. Echocardiogram is an ultrasound test that uses sound waves to produce live images of your heart. Key feature of echocardiogram is to determine the heart muscle’s health, especially after a heart attack and can also reveal heart defects in unborn babies. As the body works harder during the test, it requires more oxygen, so the heart must pump more blood. The test can show if the blood supply is reduced in the arteries that supply the heart. It also helps doctors know the kind and level of exercise appropriate for a patient. An electrocardiogram tracks and records these electrical signals as they travel through your heart. Any irregularity in the heart rhythm or damage to the heart muscle can change the electrical activity of the heart so that the shape of the ECG is changed.
Preventative Consultation
24 Hour BP Monitoring
Pacemaker Clinic
Holter Monitoring
Echocardiograms
Exercise Tests
ECG & Report
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