EmpowHer: What exactly is a cardiologist and what are some symptoms of heart disease in women? Dr. Underwood: Well, a cardiologist is an internal medicine ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Explains What A Cardiologist Does

EmpowHer Asks: What are some of your main tools or tests that you use to determine if someone has a weak heart or a diseased heart? Dr. Paul Underwood: Well, I think ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Explains The Test & Exams A Cardiologist Uses

EmpowHer Asks: Does heart disease affect women differently than men? Dr. Underwood: Well, I believe that the perception of heart disease may be different in women than ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Explains Why Women & Men Explain Heart Disease Symptoms Differently

EmpowHer Asks: Okay, talk to me about minority groups and do minority groups have higher incidences of cardiovascular disease and if so is it a combination of reasons like may be diet, and ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Explains How Minorities Are Affected By Heart Disease

EmpowHer Asks: Does most insurances that Americans have cover the basic exams you just mentioned? Dr. Paul Underwood: Yes, I haven’t really mentioned anything that would ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Discusses What Exams Are Covered By Insurance

Dr. Paul Underwood: Hello, my name is Dr. Paul Underwood. I am an interventional cardiologist. My advice to you would be to be very aware of your heart and your heart’s condition. Heart disease ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Gives His Advice For Having A Healthy Heart

EmpowHer Asks: We are asked all of the time by women how they should best advocate for themselves inside of their doctor’s office as we would pertain heart diseases or when somebody is visiting ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Explains How To Advocate For Your Heart Health In The Doctor’s Office

EmpowHer Asks: Who should take aspirin for heart health? Dr. Paul Underwood: Well, certainly Aspirin is very useful in thinning the blood and if a person has a blockage ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood Explains Who Should Take An Aspirin For Heart Health

EmpowHer Asks: If heart disease effects ethnicities differently, does the FDA -- the Food and Drug Administration -- encourage drug companies to present data across all of the demographic ...

AUDIO: Dr. Underwood: FDA Reviews Heart Research on Minorities & Some Drugs Not Effective on Minorities

EmpowHer Asks: How good of an idea will you have about a patient's heart after an EKG exam? Dr. Paul Underwood: Well we can test the heart pretty much as it at rest with ...

AUDIO: Dr. Paul Underwood Explains Why A Cardiologist Uses A Stress Test