have the president return to port-au-prince, dr. gupta? the conditions here are somewhat tough, no question about it, but as far as connecting the dots between someplace like haiti and heart disease is probably hard to do. it is a polluted city, the fourth most polluted city in the world. it s hot down here. when he was down here before, he was walking around a lot, touring hospitals, very active. but i can t imagine i would connect the dots between a trip to haiti and heart disease. i don t think he would take that trip right away, but at some time in the future, i don t think it would be a problem. larry: when we come back, we ll ask jane seymour about the emotional effects on the heart. he s held my heart, david letterman s heart, regis heart in his hands. still ahead, we ll go inside the operating room of dr. wayne isom. more in 60 seconds.
larry: i ll ask wayne about that in a moment. president clinton doesn t seem to be taking it easy. here s more of what he said today. i worked about three hours this afternoon on haiti. we have a lot of challenges there. we have too many people living in close quarters with water building up and too much risk of water-borne illnesses and stuff like that. but i feel great, and the doctors and hospital crew did a great job, and as i said, i even did a couple miles on the treadmill today, so i feel good. larry: politics aside, he is amazing. what do you make of what jane said about emotions in the heart, dr. isom? she knows more about it than i do and i m sure not an expert. i do think i see this after surgery, if somebody comes out of surgery with a positive attitude and is emotionally stable, they re going to do better. i guess you could say the same thing even before the surgery, if they ve dpot a positive attitude and they take care of
than what he had done six years ago, larry. larry: jane, when i say the word bypass or stents or heart procedure, we think men. that s a misnomer, isn t it, jane? you know, i think mostly you think about heart disease being for men, but actual formal women, it is the number one killer of women. you are ten times more likely to die of heart disease as a woman today than all the cancers put together. and it s a silent killer. that s the terrible thing. there are no symptoms at all. you have no idea, and it happened to me so i know it firsthand. larry: wayne, dr. isom, what should the president be doing now? i was told after the procedure, don t exercise for a week to ten days. take a little more aspirin. that s it, and stay away from barbecue and chicken fried steak and mexican food, things like that. watch your diet.
even if your mother and father and sisters and brothers all died from heart disease, it doesn t mean you need to, you just need to change your lifestyle more. when you change your lifestyle it actually changes your genes and in only three months, hundreds of them turning on the good genes, turning off the bad genes. larry: jane, thanks for joining us. we re going to see dr. isom perform open heart surgery. the larry king cardiac foundation saves a heart a day. that s the red band i wear. for information on how you can help or if you need surgery, check out lkcf.org. we ll be right back with a look inside the operating room.