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The healthcare professionals at Doctors for Health provide progressive primary care medicine for all patients. As your partner in wellness, we help prevent disease and illness, treat chronic health issues, and assist you in achieving a healthy lifestyle.
Preventive and age management medicine is aimed at preventing disease and disability and increasing health and wellness. Areas of specialty include comprehensive well visits, complete physicals, lab work, vaccinations, and full consultations. The caring team at Doctors for Health will listen to your health concerns and symptoms and determine if further in-house testing is needed or if a referral to a specialist is required.
Dr. Sharp is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO). His focus is on the musculoskeletal system and he can perform manipulation and adjustments to help with a variety of health issues.
Cardiovascular biomarkers prevention is performed by Doctors for Health through lab testing with Boston Heart Diagnostics Labs.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading killer in Americans. Age, gender and lifestyle affect the level of risk for heart disease. Though nothing can be done about age, gender, and genetics, lifestyle can be altered to reduce the chances of developing heart disease. In addition to helping patients make healthy lifestyle choices, the team at Doctors for Health also offer cardiovascular biomarkers prevention.
Cardiovascular biomarker testing includes testing for total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and total glycerides. In addition, the service tests for compounds that rise after a heart attack or other severe cardiovascular injury. These markers can be present in the muscle cells and then leak out into the bloodstream when damaged.
The major biomarkers that are tested include:
An enzyme produced by the muscles that is needed for energy production.
An isoenzyme of CK and performs the same function but is different in structure. This biomarker is specific to the cardiac muscles.
The most commonly used biomarker, troponin is a regulatory protein needed for muscle contraction.
A protein that transports oxygen throughout the blood.
The biomarkers blood test will assess the levels of these in your blood to diagnose a heart attack. Through comprehensive cardiac care, the team at Doctors for Health will help you reduce your chances of experiencing a heart attack, help you recover from a heart attack, and help you improve your overall cardiac health.