Health Talk: Cardiologist Dr. Salil Midha on prevention of heart disease and correlation with diabetes
[caption id="attachment_5648" align="alignright" width="236"] Dr. Salil Midha[/caption] WALTHAM, MA—How closely linked are diabetes and heart diseases? When we sat down with Cardiologist Dr. Salil Midha, MD, to talk about preventing heart diseases, the word diabetes kept coming up because it is so closely related to heart diseases and it increases the chances of heart complications several fold. It is even more deadlier among Indian Americans. Dr. Midha, chief of cardiology at Melrose Wakefield Hospital, said that 50 percent of Indian population is either diabetic or pre-diabetic and similarly 50 percent of this population has either high blood pressure or they don’t know about it. It is a deadly combination, but with preventive care heart attack risk can be reduced significantly. “Despite we don’t...