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Dr. Ernesto Hernandez |
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Dr. Ada I. Mercado |
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The Atlanta Heart Center, L.L.P., founded in 2002, is a group of physicians and staff who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Serving Cherokee county for the last eight years, Dr. Hernandez and Dr. Mercado are committed to providing the highest quality of medical care available today. They are interested in their patients well being.
AHC specializes in all areas of Cardiology, including General Cardiology, lipid management, Exercise Treadmill stress testing, Nuclear stress testing, Echo stress testing, Echocardiography, color and Echo doppler, Transesophageal Echo, Holter and Event monitoring, Cardiac catheterization, Electrical Cardioversion, ICG hemodynamics and Enhance External Counter Pulsation.
The AHC physicians and staff are committed to offering the best cardiovascular care in the North Georgia region. AHC serves the region through fully staffed offices in Canton and Jasper. |
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Estimates for the year 2006 are that 81,100,00 peple in the US have one or more forms of Cardiovasculardieases (CVD).
• Blood Pressure 73,600,000
• Heart Attack 8,500,000
• Stroke 6,400,000
• Heart Failure 5,800,000
• Claimed 831,272 lives in 2006 (34.3% of all deaths or 1 of every 2.9 deaths).
• Over 151,000 Americans killed by CVD in 2006 were under age 65.
• 2006 final death rates from CVD were 306.6 for white males,and 422.8 for black males; for white females 215.5 and for black females 298.2. (Deaths rates are per 100,000 population).
• From 1996 to 2006, deaths |
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