Dr Ignaszewski is head of the Division of Cardiology and medical director of the Healthy Heart Program at St. Paul's Hospital, and is affiliated with the hospital's Heart Transplantation Program and Heart Failure Program. He is also a clinical associate professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia.
Dr Ignaszewski studied medicine in Poland, and enjoys fishing in his spare time.
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Andrew Ignaszewski, MD, FRCPC
With the publication of “Factors of risk in the development of coronary heart disease—six year follow-up experience. The Framingham Study” in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1961, coronary heart disease (CHD) became... Read More
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In December 1967 Christiaan Barnard performed the first human cardiac transplantation in Cape Town, South Africa. Louis Washkansky, a 55-year-old man, survived for 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia. Since... Read More
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The role of dietary cholesterol in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease is well established in current medical science. However, as recently as 60 years ago, this important association was... Read More
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On 9 July 2007, Dr Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr. died of heart failure at age 84. Over the course of his career, this renowned physician-epidemiologist published more than 150 articles, many of which focused on the... Read More