About the book
The study of the heart and heart disease is one of the most complex areas
of medicine and one of the most difficult to master. Sex and Your Heart
Health describes how heart disease impacts sex and marriage. The authors
have distilled and condensed a massive amount of information in their book.
Besides providing realistic information on heart disease and sex, they
offer practical strategies for living a heart-healthy life.
Sex and Your Heart Health is an up-to-date summary of the latest
information on heart disease and how it can affect a person’s sex life.
This book is written in a conversational, easy-to-understand style aimed
at the general reader. However, it is comprehensive enough to satisfy
the needs of nurses, medical students, marriage counselors, and other professionals
who work with patients with heart disease. Sex and Your Heart
Health also contains information that will help healthy people maintain
active sex lives.
Sex and Your Heart Health leads readers through descriptions
of the anatomy and functions of the sex organs, heart, and blood vessels.
It gives concise reviews of current tests and treatments for heart disease
and sexual dysfunction. Readers without heart disease will find helpful
advice on diet, exercise, and living a healthy lifestyle. Readers
with heart disease will discover valuable information about how their disease
affects their overall health and ability to have sex. Every reader
will learn about the causes of heart disease and the state-of-the-art techniques
doctors use to evaluate and treat it.
Sex and Your Heart Health is sprinkled with medical school memoirs,
anecdotes, and jokes to lighten and illustrate its purely factual material.
It also touches on the roles of a good marriage, reducing stress, and spirituality
in enhancing both sexual and cardiovascular well-being.
Topics covered in Sex and Your Heart Health include:
• Sex and the Healthy Heart
• Sex and Heart Disease
• Sex After Heart Surgery
• Sex and Medications
• Pregnancy and Heart Disease
• Women and Heart Disease
About the Authors
Henry G. Stratmann, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., is Clinical Professor
of Medicine at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is board-certified
in Internal Medicine and in the specialties of Cardiovascular Disease and
Nuclear Cardiology.
A highly respected cardiologist for over 25 years, Henry is recognized
as a superb clinician and a top-notch teacher. He has authored or co-authored
over seventy peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Henry grew up raising chickens in a small town in southern Illinois.
His down-to-earth upbringing is reflected in his practical approach to
difficult topics.
Maryellen Stratmann, M.D., grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood
in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked her way through medical school and graduated
from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1981.
Maryellen did her internship and subsequent specialty training at Barnes
Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis. She is board-certified
in both Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Radiology. She has taught
medical students and physicians in training from both St. Louis University
and Washington University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Drury
University.
Maryellen and Henry have been married for over 22 years and have two
teenage sons. They currently reside in the beautiful Ozarks in Missouri,
the heartland of America. They both enjoy writing fiction and nonfiction.
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