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Medical School: Cornell University
Residency: Vanderbilt Medical Center in Internal Medicine
Fellowship: cardiovascular diseases
Current status: private practice: cardiology
Emphasis: coronary interventions (stents, atherectomy); nuclear cardiology (stress testing)
Hobbies: spending time with my wife and four grown children; service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; skiing; Motorsports; photography
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Cardiology
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United States: Tennessee
Languages spoken
English
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262 Answers
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A 32-year-old female asked:
Dr. Jeffrey Webberanswered
Cardiology 34 years experience
Yes, and no: yes, ok to take together. No, doubtful any adverse interaction
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A 16-year-old female asked:
Dr. Jeffrey Webberanswered
Cardiology 34 years experience
Musculoskeletal: probably musculoskeletal in nature. Overuse that side of body?
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Very: corticosteroids in general are very effective agents at treating sarcoidosis.
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Ok: suspect ok. Doubt too fast. Might need to ease into exercise a little easier, however.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Define better please: What does better mean? Initial atrial flutter ablation success rates run around 80-85%. This for the typical flutter variety. A form of atrial flutter... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Pressure or volume: Any process that provokes a chronic pressure overload to the right ventricle can do this. Examples are pulmonary hypertension and pulmonic stenosis,
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Hummmm: Two considerations: either cardiac awareness, a weird sensation that some people get when they lie down at night in which they simply are aware of the... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Yes!: Sounds physiologic: which is a fancy way of saying that's normal..'
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A 50-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Maybe: bystolic (nebivolol) is a beta blocker, and this class of drugs is useful in treating certain headaches, particularly those of the migranous variety. ... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Background noise: Stimulants like caffeine, Nodoz, alcohol, energy drinks can precipitate PACs. However these need not be ingested to have PACs. Many patients have a bu... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
"Cardiac awareness": If there is no irregularity to the heart beat, neither is it racing, then you are probably experiencing a well-recognized yet poorly understood phenom... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Jeffrey Webberanswered
Cardiology 34 years experience
Exercise!: Exercise is the magic bullet here, along with staying well hydrated and getting plenty of uninterrupted nighttime sleep. Also, make sure no other prob... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Try this: The cuff should fit snugly but not be stretched, neither should if feel uncomfortable. If this occurs then the BP might register as artificially highe... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Likely musculoskelal: Short and sharp and random: these features all suggest musculoskeletal origins. Cardiac pain usually is described as heavy dull or burning; lasts typ... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
Dr. Jeffrey Webberanswered
Cardiology 34 years experience
It's ok!: Many normal healthy women have a BP in that range.
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A 16-year-old female asked:
Dr. Jeffrey Webberanswered
Cardiology 34 years experience
Musculoskeletal: Likely a pain originating in the muscles, cartilage, or bones in the chest area. "Growing pains" are a real entity! Make sure you are not engaged in s... Read More
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A member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Tests for plaque: These tests are used to gain some crude understanding of what environment is affecting the vessels of the body. LDL-P is a protein that potentiates t... Read More
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A 71-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Not common: Seems like any medication can cause just about anything! But statistically it's not something I run into commonly in daily practice...and I use this m... Read More
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A 34-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Yes: i can feel my own. nothing wrong with this
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A 48-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Not entirely: As you already inferred, warfarin (Coumadin) is antagonized by certain foods. Usually we refer to these foods as "leafy vegetables": lettuce, brussel ... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Jeffrey Webberanswered
Cardiology 34 years experience
Caffeine?: Tough to know for certain. Caffeine might be contributing. Other ideas include relative dehydration, sedentary lifestyle i.e. deconditioning . Less li... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Depends: Typically over the long haul concern is raised over end organ damage (to the heart for example) if SBP>140 and/or DBP>90.
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Spasm: spasm in one of the extra ocular muscles
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A 31-year-old female asked:
Dr. Jeffrey Webberanswered
Cardiology 34 years experience
Depends: Depends on what you mean heal. The external incision heals quickly-sealing up within 7-10 days. The breastbone is sutured together in the operating ro... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Nearly normal.: Normal heart rates vary considerably from person to person. We consider a normal HR as 60-100 bpm. Aerobic conditioning (or lack thereof), fevers or i... Read More
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A male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Mother Nature: sounds like your body is giving you cues. I'd stop altogether if I were you. So many health benefits to not smoking weed.
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
"Normal?": If by "normal" you mean can the heart pump function still be normal then the answer is yes! Usually some form of stress test would pick such a conditi... Read More
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A 54-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Musculoskeletal?: Greetings to my old hometown! I'm a runnin' Ute. Symptoms sound musculoskeletal, particularly how they run down arm and are aggravated by lying on aff... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Preferably: I think you would get a cleaner less ambiguous test result if you stopped the verapamil 3 doses beforehand, that is if you are not needing it for trea... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Anatomical defect: probably a superficial blood vessel close to surface of air passage way in the nasal mucosa. Less likely some bleeding defect in the bloodstream. He s... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Cholestipol: Cholestipol. It's an old agent seldom used anymore. Another more frequently used agent is cholestyramine.
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Yes!: we call it cardiac awareness. No one knows what triggers the realization, but it's a very normal experience. Most patients tell me they hear a hard or... Read More
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A 50-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Depends: Depends: on what you are treating and how you feel with that heart rate. In general I accept rates that low if no dizziness or near passing out sensat... Read More
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Blood presure: High blood pressure can contribute or even primarily cause this. Good treatment options are available that can be counteract this process. See your gp... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
May not be connected: Dilated aortic root issues are frequently genetically driven and not acquired, one important exception being uncontrolled hypertension. In any event, ... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Low risk...maybe: Dvts can happen to anyone who travel for hours in an automobile or airplane without stimulating their leg muscles with some form of exercise. Risk in ... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Fitness: CV endurance refers to aerobic conditioning, or the body's ability to maintain a heightened level of physical activity over a long period of time. I l... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
See below: If your pregnancy has been uncomplicated then brisk walking or even more agressive aerobic exercise such as running, elliptical training, or even swim... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Normal, yes!: It's common for heart rates of normal individuals to drop during sleep. We frequently see rates as low as high 30s in patients on telemetry in the hos... Read More
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Probably not, but...: That is dangerously high bp! if it remained like that for more than 10-15 minutes, given those symptoms a trip to the er is in order!
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Yes and no: Some hydroxycut preparations contain caffeine, and caffeine definitely can have an effect on the heart: palpitations! I do not know of any literature ... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Can do: This can be enough to set some peoples BP soaring! usually this happens to those suffering from pre-existing high BP issues. I rarely see BP problems ... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
?: This might be normal for you, the heart rate response I mean to exercise. Alternately it could be you need more aerobic exercise
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
GI disturbance: Sounds like a gastrointestinal malady of some sort. Think about inflammation of the esophagus ("food pipe"), or the stomach itself. Less likely would ... Read More
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Doubtful: Unlikely this is heart attack pain. Why? Well, heart pain usually: lasts minutes not seconds; occurs while exerting and not when simply lying in bed. ... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Unlikely to be prob: Highly unlikely that cholesterol meds will thin blood enough to cause a clinical issue. I think you are fine in taking it. In any event, any real or ... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
No: Like not getting Fluoride in the water, elevated BP is mostly problematic at that level only if left like that for prolonged periods of time, like wee... Read More
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A 61-year-old male asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
No greater: Rbbb is a common finding having no bearing on one's risk for developing a heart attack or congestive heart failure. The "block" refers to an electrica... Read More
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Common: "Normal" is probably not quite correct. Common may better reflect the state of many individuals heart valves. With modern high resolution echocardiogr... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Cardiology 34 years experience
Standard dose: as starting point is 0.375mcg/kg/min IV
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awesome caring doctor. best I have encountered on the app.
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This was very helpful. Thanks! My granddaughter has very low blood pressure and has seizures. I wondered if there was a medication she could take to raise her blood pressure and maybe stop the seizur...Read More
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This made me feel good. Thanks! Thank you. This help ease some of the anxiety. I was told at the ED that it isn't uncommon to be able to see the pulse of the AA in slim people.
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, NY
Graduated 1989MD
Residency
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Awards
Top Doctor, Second Place, Nashville Region - Summer
2014
Top Cardiologist , First Place, Tennessee - Summer
2014
Thought Leader Doctor, Third Place, Nashville Region - Summer
2014
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