Maryland Cardiologist Explains Heart Symptoms

Dr. Leith Abdulla sees heart disease patients daily at offices in Rockville and Olney, MD. Our doctor is devoted to ensuring his community residents have quality heart care. We will explain about the heart to ensure your heart is in tip-top shape. We give you simple things you can do to help you prevent heart problems.

Our doctor advocates a healthy heart through prevention.

• Eating a healthy diet
• Exercising daily
• Keeping weight within ideal limits for you
• Decreasing alcohol consumption
• Quitting smoking
• Scheduling a yearly cardiac workup. 

Keep Heart Healthy

Our cardiology doctor in Rockville and Olney, MD, advocates healthy living to help prevent heart disease. Most Americans don't live healthily and don't think about what their habits are doing to their heart. 

Become committed to living healthy for yourself and your family. If you live healthily, your children will follow suit. Healthy living involves permanent lifestyle changes, as explained below.

• Eat balanced meals, heart-healthy foods daily/fresh fruits and vegetables/lean meat like turkey, fatty fish, chicken/less red meats, sugar, and salt/read food labels.
• Avoid fried, greasy foods; bake/broil meats and steamed vegetables to preserve nutrients. Learn new healthy cooking skills.
• Drink at least eight, or eight ounces of water per day.
• Decrease caffeine intake. Limit coffee to one to two cups per day.
• Lose weight if you are over your recommended weight range. 
• Manage stress through recreational activities, meditation, and time-outs. 
• Ensure at least six to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep per night for your mental health and well-being. 
• Avoid toxic relationships. 
• Quit smoking and vaping.
• Create a suitable exercise plan for your age and ability. Keep active and stay motivated by fixing goals daily. If walking is your limit, it is okay. An uninterrupted walk of one mile a day is excellent exercise. 
• If you love pets, give a needy animal a good home. Bonding with pets proves to keep blood pressure down. 
• Schedule wellness visits yearly and see the doctor in between for health issues.
• Schedule a yearly cardiac workup with our doctor. 

Does Your Heart Have Problems?

Find out if your symptoms are heart-related or another health condition. 

• Chest pain 
• Dizziness/fainting
• Shortness of breath
• Hypertension
• Racing/fluttering/irregular heart
• Leg cramps/pain  

Make Sure Your Heart is in Great Shape!

Call our proactive cardiologist in heart disease at (301) 881-5858 in Rockville or (301) 774-5260 in Olney, MD. Schedule an appointment with Dr. Abdulla today for a cardiovascular workup. Ensure your heart is in great shape. 

Never wait until you have a cardiac event like a cardiac arrest, heart palpitations, or an irregular heart pattern, and visit our doctor. Put your mind at rest. Being proactive about your heart is the key to staying healthy for life.