I also have a resting heart rate in the mid 50s and LDL of 46, but in my case it is because of beta blockers and 80 mg of statins daily.
3 years ago I found out I had 3 total occlusions and needed an immediate coronary artery bypass graft. 3 years later and my heart is still only half as efficient as a normal man my age because of extensive scarring! Take care of yourselves people, there is more to life than shipping software!
Seems like a lot of people are missing the fact that is study of people with heart failure not a study of otherwise healthy people.
The study is decreasing sodium intake even further from the current guideline for patients with heart failure.
The effect of sodium intake is very different for people who need to maintain very tight tolerances to survive. And a ton of effort is spent keeping people with heart failure out of the hospital.
I have heart failure and have an implant that measures electrical conductivity of heart tissue and will warn if I am approaching fluid overload due to too much sodium.
ICD patient and avid cell phone user here. They tell us magnets will disable the device. This is by design, they include a hall effect sensor to allow medical personnel to disable the devices. They aren't exactly specific about how big a magnet and how close it has to be.
My device sends data to a base station which reports back and is also interrogated every 6 months by a electrophysiologist and they can see if and when it has been disabled.
Mine has been disabled twice so far, once by using the Boston Scientific interrogation device to turn it off, and once by a surgeon taping a magnet to my chest!
I had a coronary artery bypass graft earlier this year so I can offer some perspective on recovery. I wasn't eligible for stents due to the extent of the blockages.
Recovery is painful. The sternum is sawn in half to access the heart, I am 9 months out and my sternum still hurts.
Aside from the pain it is not bad. I was walking the day after the surgery. I was discharged in 4 days. I was back at work full time in 2 weeks. I was able to run a mile within a few months.
I was in cardiac rehab with patients who had received stents. They seemed to progress slower because many of them still had angina. They had a minimally invasive procedure, but they still had chest pain when exerting themselves.
I recently finished cardiac rehab but when I was on the waiting list to start my PCP told me "Just google cardiac rehab, find some videos and do them." The videos I found were from the NHS. They were very different from what cardiac rehab in the US was like, but they got me up and moving.
Another anecdotal report but when I diagnosed with T2 early this year I went into overdrive testing after waking up, before bed, and 2 hours after every meal. My doctors said it was excessive but better than the alternative. I gradually learned how to eat without spiking my glucose and now that my a1c is down to 5.4 I've eliminated testing almost completely.
Heart failure patient here. This is kinda cool but tempered a bit by the fact that I've seen multiple cardiologists make a diagnosis by just glancing at a 12 lead ECG sheet. There are some pretty recognizable hallmarks.
3 years ago I found out I had 3 total occlusions and needed an immediate coronary artery bypass graft. 3 years later and my heart is still only half as efficient as a normal man my age because of extensive scarring! Take care of yourselves people, there is more to life than shipping software!