Heart Assessments To Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease
Heart assessments that bridge the gap in our healthcare system. Going to your family doctor is a start, but unfortunately, they lack essential tools to determine heart attack and stroke risk.
Cardiologists are great, but they are only looking for advanced stages of heart disease.
The Heart Fit Clinic bridges this important gap, helping you prevent and reverse heart disease. If you have heart disease, then we would love to treat this and keep track of your disease progress.
Getting angiograms is invasive and should only be done when you have an emergency. Stress tests are only looking for advanced stages of disease.
Let us look at the heart and artery like a muscle, as it is not a plumbing problem.
Heart Assessments To Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease
Heart assessments that bridge the gap in our healthcare system. Going to your family doctor is a start, but unfortunately, they lack essential tools to determine heart attack and stroke risk.
Cardiologists are great, but they are only looking for advanced stages of heart disease.
The Heart Fit Clinic bridges this important gap, helping you prevent and reverse heart disease. If you have heart disease, then we would love to treat this and keep track of your disease progress.
Getting angiograms is invasive and should only be done when you have an emergency. Stress tests are only looking for advanced stages of disease.
Let us look at the heart and artery like a muscle, as it is not a plumbing problem.
Who We help?
arteries are a muscle not a pipe
They expand and contract and have extensive biology to them.
If we were to attach all your blood vessels together, it would go around the world almost 3 times!
Heart Risk & Artery Health Check
Our heart assessments are designed to look at the risk of a plaque rupture and understand the biology of the artery wall.
Artery Assesments
We are excited to offer you a comprehensive and informed evaluation of your heart health without any harmful radiation or invasive procedures, ensuring your safety, peace of mind, and to improved prevention and treatment of various heart conditions.
How old are
your arteries?
How Reactive Are
Your Arteries?
How Healthy Are
Your Arteries?
how stiff are
your arteries?
do you have
blockages?
We have testing for all of this!
Advanced Bloodwork
We are excited to offer you a comprehensive and informed evaluation of your heart health without any harmful radiation or invasive procedures, ensuring your safety, peace of mind, and to improved prevention and treatment of various heart conditions.
Key Inflammatory Markers
Measure pulse wave analysis and artery stiffness. We also look at the blood pressure at the level of the heart (central blood pressure). Learn more.
Key Inflammatory Markers
83% of heart attacks and strokes occur with people with normal cholesterol. Many people think cholesterols accumulates to the artery wall. So if you have normal cholesterol, you are all good (not true). And if you have high cholesterol, you are all good because you are taking a cholesterol lowering drug (not true).
Size matters. Cholesterol comes in different sizes. The artery is
protected by the endothelium. You can be told you have normal cholesterol yet you have a lot more smaller ones therefore more dangerous and can easily get inside the endothelium.
OR you can be told you have high cholesterol with larger particles which would not get through the endothelium.
Do you have high cholesterol or are you taking a statin?
Infection & Immune Response
Imagine a cholesterol like a sliver. And we now know that the inner lining of the artery wall is all skin called the endothelium. If a sliver, slivers into the lining of the skin and you are not able to get it out with tweezers, this triggers an infection and immune response.
The same thing happens inside the artery wall and this is the phase where we can see where your risk is of a heart attack or stroke in the next 5 years. Giving us time to make the necessary changes to reverse this process.
Nutrition Meal Plans
Further Bloodwork
Unlocking Your Heart’s Genetic Code
Cardiogenomic testing reveals the unique genetic markers that shape your heart health, helping us uncover potential risks before they become serious. At Heart Fit Clinic, we use this powerful insight to create a personalized prevention and care plan tailored to your DNA, lifestyle, and medical history. This proactive approach gives you clarity, confidence, and a clear roadmap to protect and strengthen your heart for the long term.
A Smarter Way to Protect Your Future
Knowing your genetic risks gives you the power to make informed decisions today. Whether it’s adjusting nutrition, lifestyle, or starting early medical interventions, cardiogenomic testing ensures that every step you take supports a healthier, stronger heart for the future. Prevention starts with knowledge—and knowledge begins with your DNA.
Artery Assesments
We are excited to offer you a comprehensive and informed evaluation of your heart health without any harmful radiation or invasive procedures, ensuring your safety, peace of mind, and to improved prevention and treatment of various heart conditions.
How Old Is Your Arteries?
How Reactive Are Your Arteries?
How Healthy Are Your Arteries?
how stiff are your arteries?
do you have blockages?
We have testing for all of this!
Advanced Bloodwork
We are excited to offer you a comprehensive and informed evaluation of your heart health without any harmful radiation or invasive procedures, ensuring your safety, peace of mind, and to improved prevention and treatment of various heart conditions.
Key Inflammatory Markers
Inside the artery wall is all skin, it is called the endothelium and we look at your inflammatory markers to determine what is injuring this artery wall (endothelium).
Particle Size Cholesterol Testing
83% of heart attacks and strokes occur with people with normal cholesterol. Many people think cholesterols accumulates to the artery wall. So if you have normal cholesterol, you are all good (not true). And if you have high cholesterol, you are all good because you are taking a cholesterol lowering drug (not true).
Size matters. Cholesterol comes in different sizes. The artery is
protected by the endothelium. You can be told you have normal cholesterol yet you have a lot more smaller ones therefore more dangerous and can easily get inside the endothelium.
OR you can be told you have high cholesterol with larger particles which would not get through the endothelium.
Do you have high cholesterol or are you taking a statin?
Infection & Immune Response
Imagine a cholesterol like a sliver. And we now know that the inner lining of the artery wall is all skin called the endothelium. If a sliver, slivers into the lining of the skin and you are not able to get it out with tweezers, this triggers an infection and immune response. The same thing happens inside the artery wall and this is the phase where we can see where your risk is of a heart attack or stroke in the next 5 years. Giving us time to make the necessary changes to reverse this process.
The same thing happens inside the artery wall and this is the phase where we can see where your risk is of a heart attack or stroke in the next 5 years and even more advanced testing to determine 1 year risk of a heart attack.
Nutrition Meal Plans
Further Bloodwork
FAQs
The Heart Fit Clinic is a cardiac rehabilitation, maintenance and heart attack and stroke prevention clinic.
We are a group of multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals dedicated to our mission.
It is our passion to help the people become more aware of their chronic disease risk factors and equip them with lifestyle strategies to improve their heart health.
Clients can refer themselves to the Heart Fit Clinic.
If required after their initial assessment with our Cardiovascular Nurse, we will seek a physician consent/referral on the client’s behalf.
Healthcare providers can seek our referral forms and fax them to our clinic at (403) 278-4333.
No. Heart disease is the number one cause of death of men and women in Canada, but it is also the number one preventable disease.
If you are concerned about your heart health we encourage you to see our experts at the Heart Fit Clinic.
People concerned about their heart health. People who have risk factors for chronic diseases like heart disease, stroke or diabetes.
People with heart problems such as heart disease, valvular disease, congenital heart disease, congestive heart failure or heart rhythm problems (atrial fibrillation or flutter, patients treated with a pacemaker or implantable cardiac defibrillator).
Both clinics are private clinics and offer reputable cardiac rehabilitation programs. Total Cardiology is a co-funded program ($500 cost), meaning that they receive funds from the government to conduct their program.
This structure forces them to see many people a year with group exercise classes with reduced individual attention. The exercise classes are limited scheduling twice weekly. To qualify for this program you must have diagnosed heart disease, and the program cannot be repeated without evidence of another cardiovascular event (i.e. heart attack).
The Heart Fit Clinic is not funded, allowing us to give the individual attention people deserve and assist them to reach their cardiovascular goals. The Heart Fit Clinic offers flexible scheduling from 7am to 7pm and is open Monday to Saturday.
In addition to our cardiac rehabilitation and maintenance programs, the Heart Fit Clinic has a unique and highly regarded cardiac prevention program. We also offer individual guidance regarding supplements, medications and conventional and traditional therapies.
Combining the best of traditional and conventional cardiology so you can live longer.
Please refer to our patient testimonials.
The Heart Fit Clinic offers:
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Cardiac Assessments
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Carotid IMT screening
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Clinical Fitness Assessments
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Clinic Exercise Programs (aerobic, strength and flexibility.)
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Cardiac Yoga
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Stress Management sessions
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Dietitian
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Psychological assessments
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Consultations, including education material in all of these areas.
We have various programs available to meet your individual needs.
We offer various programs and services.
Yes. Carotid IMT is a simple ultrasound of the carotid artery in the neck. Unlike most tests used to screen blood vessel health, C-IMT is non-invasive, painless and radiation-free.
The Carotid IMT portion of our comprehensive Coronary Risk Profile takes about 10 to 20 minutes to complete.
Our services are tax deductible, unfortunately at this time AHC does not cover our programs.
However our services have been covered by extended health care insurance providers.
Please see our fees and schedules.
No. The Heart Fit Clinic uses your C-IMT score in conjunction with the other information obtained from our comprehensive cardiac assessment to provide you with a complete profile of your risk for cardiovascular disease.
We encourage your to share your results with your doctor, as he/she is responsible for overseeing your health care plan.
The difference is that you are supervised by a certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP). Our CEPs are qualified to monitor your vital signs during an exercise session to ensure a safe and effective level of exercise.
These include: ECG (electrocardiography), heart rhythm, blood pressure, oxygen level and heart rate. The CEP focuses on ensuring safe aerobic, strength and flexibility training to reach your personal goals.
They possess academic excellence and experience in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention.
They are qualified to read and conduct stress tests, provide clinical exercise prescription and elite supervised exercises sessions.
The Heart Fit Clinic work in conjunction with your family doctor to provide the best for your heart health. Family doctors realize that they do not have the time resource to address all your risk factors to heart disease and go over in detail all the lifestyle modification strategies to reduce or reverse your risk of heart disease.
Doctors refer to our program as they understand the benefits of our services. If you are without symptoms for heart disease then they may be hesitant at referring you for further investigation for heart disease due to overloading the system.
You may have a clean bill of health but if you are concerned about your heart health then the Heart Fit Clinic is your best option. Yes you can take advantage of our online programs or you can contact us today.
Many of our assessment services unfortunately will not be found at your doctors office. That is why we get referrals to our practices. Remember you are 100% responsible for your heart health. We look forward to helping you with your heart health.
The Heart Fit Clinic was founded based on the principle of “how would I want to be treated if I had a heart event?”.
With the experience, expertise and academic excellence of the Heart Fit Clinic team, it is our passion to help the people achieve their heart health goals.