What is Peripheral Arterial Disease?
Dr. Sattesh Babu of Vascular Associates of Westchester discusses Peripheral Arterial Disease, who is at risk, why it is important to be screened and current treatments.
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VARICOSE VEIN UPDATE
HEART CAT SCANS
Fast heart CAT scans have been a screening test in limbo. The exact role and place for this exam, which is becoming more widely available, hasn’t been well defined, until now.
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LOW LOW CHOLESTEROL
How low should cholesterol go? And is it safe to reduce cholesterol levels to as low as doctors can take it?
New research just released provides the answer.
The guidelines for cholesterol goals have shifted over the years, gradually decreasing. An LDL, or bad cholesterol number of 130 was the cholesterol goal a decade or so ago. That then fell to 100. And now it’s fallen even further to about 70? Is it worth the effort?
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DIABETES PREVENTION STUDY
If you have no signs of it, what diabetes prevention can you take to ensure that you don’t develop the disease and its associated complications.
Two new studies give insight into preventing diabetes, which is a major risk for heart attacks, strokes, and numerous other complications.
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“Following an exercise regimen and watching what I eat has been very helpful,” says diabetes patient, Theodore Lymes.
Theodore Lymes has battled diabetes for fifteen years. He says given his poor diet, sedentary lifestyle combined with a family history of diabetes, it was no surprise when he was diagnosed. But quickly, Theodore moved to action, losing weight and working out.
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CAROTID STENT PROCEDURE
“The episode was a sense of numbness on the left hand side of my body,” recalls Donald Taylor.
As a physician, Donald Taylor knew that the numbness was an alarm sounding. He immediately went to the hospital.
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DIABETES BREATHALYZER
A new diabetes breathalyzer allows people to have an early indication of whether they are at risk of developing diabetes.
Two years ago, 13 year old Lauren Barbiero barely weighed 70 pounds.
“I was kind of scared of myself. I wanted myself to look a little more like a living person, not like a dead ghost.”
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NEW DIABETIC GUIDELINES
There are important new diabetes guidelines just released that instruct most Type 2 diabetics to take cholesterol-lowering medication. The goal is to cut down on their risk for heart attacks and strokes, common killers in this patient population. Now, these new diabetes guidelines put out by the American College of Physicians, say most diabetics need to be put on cholesterol lowering medicines even if their cholesterol levels are not high.
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