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Dr. Amy Ahnert

Co-Director Lehigh Valley Women's Heart and Vascular Program at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN)
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Cardiologist Amy Ahnert, MD, is co-director of the Women’s Heart & Vascular Program at Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute, one of the nation’s largest women’s heart programs and part of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). Dr. Ahnert’s areas of expertise include women and heart disease and cardio-obstetrics. Dr. Ahnert is co-chair of the cardio-obstetrics program at LVHN and has served as the principal investigator for cardiology clinical trials.

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  • "It's not necessarily a lot of fancy testing, fancy medications or fancy interventions. It's a lot of just how do we get you to be the healthiest that you can in terms of really [taking] control of the things that are in our control: eating healthy, exercising, not smoking, watching our blood pressure, making sure we're checking our cholesterol on or other risk factors.”

  • “We know that if we're able to educate women, if we're able to empower women, if we're able to control their risk factors, if we're able to encourage them to live a heart-healthy lifestyle, we can prevent heart disease, it's not inevitable. 80% of heart disease can be prevented,”

  • “Things like high blood pressure and pregnancy; preeclampsia, which is a severe form of high blood pressure and pregnancy; high sugar and pregnancy, which is called gestational diabetes; small babies preterm babies, there are many outcomes that a woman can face during their pregnancy, that can increase their risk of heart disease,"

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