Preventing Cardiovascular Disease One Heartbeat At A Time™
As the nation's foremost authority on delivery of EECP treatment, Sara Soulati knows firsthand the effects of EECP on a variety of diseases (not only cardiovascular disease). In this section we teach you more about EECP as it relates to a variety of diseases. Sign up for your FREE EECP Trial at Global Cardio Care today!
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Angina Pectoris (chest pain)
- Coronary Artery Disease (blocked arteries)
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Stroke (brain attack)
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Renal Failure (kidney disease)
- Quality of Life
- Lymphatic System
- Erectile Dysfunction (impotence)
- Peripheral Artery Disease (blockages of lower extremities)
- Sports Enhancement
A Message From Sara Soulati
When I began my journey as a pioneer in the field of Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP®), I treated and saw firsthand the power of EECP therapy for patients suffering from cardiovascular disease. I recognized what few others have—cardiovascular disease can be prevented with lifestyle modification complemented by EECP therapy. This is the answer to the nation’s health care crisis.
EECP can prevent, cure and eradicate cardiovascular disease. When people enroll in the Sara Soulati Health For Life Program and focus on changing lifestyle, then EECP treatment delivers more powerful results.
I have educated thousands of people and physicians about EECP, and I have treated a wide variety of diseases with EECP therapy first. When physicians learn about the benefits of EECP, they realize EECP is powerful and enhances quality of life. The clinical studies about EECP prove it positively improves circulation throughout the body and organs. It reverses inflammatory diseases, regenerates, restores, repairs, and re-grows arteries and organ function.
At Global Cardio Care Centers, we treat patients with degenerative cardiovascular diseases including hypertension, stroke, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, and vascular disease. After several courses of EECP therapy, peoples' conditions functionally improve.
Take control of your destiny and prevent cardiovascular disease with lifestyle modification and EECP therapy.
The Metabolic Syndrome
An estimated 47 million U.S. residents have the metabolic syndrome, and it's becoming a household word. When left unchecked, the rising level of obesity nation-wide is the impetus for more risk factors that lead directly to cardiovascular disease and stroke. By preventing these five risk factors from getting out of control, each can be prevented.
The American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute recommend that the metabolic syndrome be identified as the presence of three or more out of five components.
- Elevated waist circumference (less than/equal to 40 inches for men; less than/equal to 35 inches for women)
- Elevated triglycerides (less than/equal to 150 mg/dL)
- Reduced HDL (good) cholesterol (less than/equal to 40 mg/dL for men; less than/equal to 50 mg/dL for women)
- Elevated blood pressure (greater than 130/85 mm Hg)
- Elevated fasting glucose (greater than 100 mg/dL)
Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for the metabolic syndrome. We are positively influencing and saving lives:
- With education and consistent information about better lifestyle choices.
- With simple screenings and diagnostic testing to alter the pathway to disease.
- By preventing illness before it occurs.
- With a cardiovascular disease treatment called EECP.
Angina Pectoris (chest pain)
EECP is proven to reduce or eliminate effects of angina pectoris or chest discomfort as a result of ischemic heart disease. EECP prompts growth of new arteries also called collaterals. Like a natural bypass, angiogenesis naturally opens new arteries for blood to flow. During EECP, nitric oxide and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) are secreted which promote angiogenesis. Arterial walls functionally improve and circulating stem cells regenerate diseased tissue. This regenerative effect also helps restore, repair and replace dead cells with healthy cells of the heart muscle.
When people receive EECP treatment one hour daily, five days a week for 35 hours, symptoms of chest pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue may be reduced or eliminated leading to enhanced quality of life.
Richard N. Fogoros, M.D. on About.com Heart Health Center wrote the following:
EECP now appears to be quite effective in treating chronic stable angina. A randomized trial with EECP, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologyin 1999, showed that EECP significantly improved both the symptoms of angina (a subjective measurement) and exercise tolerance (a more objective measurement) in patients with coronary artery disease. EECP also significantly improved “quality of life” measures, as compared to placebo therapy.
More recent data show that this improvement in symptoms following a course of EECP seems to persist for up to five years.
Furthermore, there is also preliminary data suggesting that EECP may be useful for treating unstable angina, as adjunctive therapy after revascularization (i.e., with angioplasty, stent, and/or bypass surgery), and even as first-line (instead of last resort) therapy for more routine forms of angina.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with angina pectoris featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from cardiovascular disease.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on coronary artery disease, and other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect angina, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Coronary Artery Disease (blocked arteries)
People with coronary artery disease are at high risk for diabetes mellitus. Coronary artery disease (CAD) includes angina pectoris, and EECP treatment is effective in relief of angina symptoms in patients who have diabetes and advanced cardiovascular disease.
In 2000, researchers compared 785 patients with diabetes who also had angina who underwent EECP treatment with a comparison group of 1,118 people without diabetes who did have angina. Results after a full course of EECP treatment showed 78.3 percent of people with diabetes and 81.8 percent of people without diabetes improved their angina symptoms by at least one or more classification.
Researchers concluded, “EECP is safe, well tolerated and associated with improvement in angina, functional status, and quality of life and that clinical benefit was maintained in most patients at one year.”
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with coronary artery disease featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from cardiovascular disease.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on coronary artery disease, and other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect coronary artery disease, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
EECP helps grow new collaterals for blood to flow, like a natural bypass around blocked arteries.
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Blood pressure is the measurement of force applied to artery walls.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, can often by managed by reducing risk factors. These include smoking, diet and exercise, for example. EECP is known as passive exercise; the mechanism of EECP acts like a second heart pumping when yours is at rest.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with hypertension featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from cardiovascular disease that includes high blood pressure.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect hypertension, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Diabetes Mellitus
People with diabetes have high blood sugar because the body cannot produce enough insulin, a hormone, or the cells don’t respond to insulin being produced. With diabetes, the pancreas is impaired.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with diabetes featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from diabetes mellitus.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect diabetes, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Stroke (brain attack)
Like the heart which can become ischemic (diseased), the brain also experiences ischemia due to lack of blood flow which may lead to stroke. EECP treatment provides for the functional improvement of arteries in the brain.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with stroke featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from the effects of stroke.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect stroke, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Congestive Heart Failure
A significant study to evaluate EECP treatment in people with congestive heart failure (the PEECH Trial) was reported in 2005 by Arthur Feldman, MD, PhD. The study included 187 patients with ischemic/non-ischemic heart failure and New York Heart Association class II or III symptoms. Results showed that EECP improved exercise duration, symptom status and quality of life in patients with mild- to-moderate heart failure already on optimal medical therapy. This research resulted in FDA approval of EECP for congestive heart failure in 2002. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for congestive heart failure.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with congestive heart failure featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from heart failure.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect heart failure, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Renal Failure (kidney disease)
Clinical studies in renal failure have shown that EECP positively influences kidneys during treatment.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with renal failure featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from kidney failure.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect renal failure, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Quality of Life
Many clinical studies demonstrate long-term improvement in quality of life post-EECP treatment. In a study conducted in 2005 by Dr. O. Soran, 58 percent of patients studied improved quality of life post-EECP treatments. After a two-year follow-up, 63 percent of people improved their quality of life compared with the baseline.
Other studies show that among people who undergo EECP treatment, 70 percent to 80 percent of them realize immediate benefit. Quality of life is measured by the ability to resume daily living, social interaction and recreational activities.
Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle treatment protocol with EECP for enhanced quality of life.
Other Benefits of EECP on Health
Lymphatic System
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with EECP to cleanse and detox the lymphatic system. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect the lymphatic system, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Erectile Dysfunction (impotence)
A research study on the effects of EECP on men with coronary disease including severe angina pectoris, erectile dysfunction and various other co-morbid conditions (diabetes and peripheral vascular disease) was published in the May 2007 International Journal of Clinical Practice. The study showed that after a full 35-hour regimen of EECP treatment, men suffering from angina as well as erectile dysfunction functionally improved in both areas.
EECP progressively increases nitric oxide levels in the blood and normalizes endothelial function. The endothelium is the lining of the arteries throughout the body. During EECP arterial vasodilation improves; within the arteries of the penis, EECP augments vasodilation and erection may be enhanced.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients with EECP and has seen positive benefits as a result of treatment. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect erectile dysfunction, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Peripheral Artery Disease (blockages of lower extremities)
When you experience EECP treatment, the blood-pressure type cuffs inflate rapidly in sequence when your heart is at rest and deflate when your heart is pumping. This action causes oxygenated blood to circulate from the lower extremities up through the heart and throughout the body and organs.
When arteries are blocked with plaque anywhere in the body, the mechanism of EECP enables growth of new collaterals for blood to flow around the obstruction. Like a natural bypass, EECP opens new pathways for blood to circulate. At the same time, the lining of the arteries (the endothelium) functionally improves and becomes more elastic and supple because of the sequential pulsing during EECP treatment.
Sara Soulati is a clinician in the field of EECP treatment. Since 1996, longer than any other practitioner in the U.S., she has treated patients featuring EECP. Only Global Cardio Care Centers offers the most comprehensive lifestyle disease treatment protocol with EECP for people suffering from peripheral artery disease.
In 2010, Global Cardio Care Centers delivered nearly 25,000 hours of EECP treatment, more than any other clinic in the U.S. We have seen firsthand the powerful effects of EECP on a wide array of cardiovascular disease, other diseases and illnesses.
If you’d like to learn more about the power of EECP and how it can positively affect peripheral artery disease, please contact Global Cardio Care to schedule your free EECP trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
Sports Enhancement
Sara Soulati stands with Muhammad Ali and his daughter, Laila Ali, women's boxing champion.
NBA star Shaquille O'Neal with Dean Chiaro at Global Cardio Care Centers after an EECP treatment session.
Sara Soulati is the first and only EECP® practitioner in the country to develop a sports protocol for elite athletes. Her work to further understand the effects of EECP on the elite athlete started in 1997 with the U.S. Olympic Sprint Team followed by research with the Los Angeles Avengers Arena Football team in 2001. (The team has since disbanded in 2009.)
During EECP, athletes experience enhanced venous return, resulting in increased cardiac output without an increase in cardiac workload. Such hemodynamics aid the body in its recovery process while reducing risk of injury.
Published studies demonstrate that EECP improves exercise tolerance (stamina) and recovery time due to improved myocardial perfusion and altered exercise hemodynamics.
Other potential benefits of EECP for athletes may include higher levels of endurance and stamina, elevated athletic performance, reduced risk of and reduced injury healing time, increased energy levels, and faster recovery from lactic acid build up.
Her results showed EECP:
- Improves overall cardiovascular fitness
- Reduces fatigue and reduces lactic acid
- Decreases recovery time between workouts
- Helps reduce risk of injury in athletes
- Is a natural enhancement for endurance, stamina and the rigors of training
Take the first step toward healthier longevity. If you, or someone you know, suffer from cardiovascular disease, please contact Global Cardio Care Centers to schedule a Free EECP Trial. We’re available at 310-412-8181.
