P.A.D. (Peripheral Arterial Disease) is caused by many factors. Some of them are diabetes, smoking history, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and known atherosclerosis in another vascular bed. Age is a key factor, being 50-65 with at least one risk factor for atherosclerosis or being younger than 50 years old but having diabetes can be…...

How do you monitor glucose levels at home? Is it possible? Jennifer Miles Nyugen, Specialty Pharmacist Clinical Coordinator with Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute and Baptist Health Primary Care, and Amy Kimberlain, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, walk us through what a typical self-monitoring of blood glucose device is...

The particles travel through the blood and they’re meant to be going to the liver, where they can be eliminated. However, when something, such as tobacco, processed foods, stress or not getting enough sleep, erodes of inflames the endothelium and plaque appears, explains Dr. Jonathan Fialkow, Deputy Chief of Cardiology with Miami Cardiac & Vascular…...

Is type 2 diabetes preventable? Jennifer Miles Nyugen, Specialty Pharmacist Clinical Coordinator with Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute and Baptist Health Primary Care, explains how this broad spectrum of conditions is impacting different areas of the body...

Dr. Deepa Sharma, Family Medicine Physician with Baptist Health Primary Care, says a lot of excess sugar in the diet leads to an increase in obesity and its complications. She explains excess sugar and diabetes are considered a cardiovascular risk factor, because it increases the risk of obesity. She recommends working together as a family…...

With a graphic, Lois Exelbert, Nurse Diabetes Educator and Patient Care Manager with Baptist Hospital, explains the tests which are used to diagnosis diabetes. The expert explains the test called A1C measures the average of what blood sugar there has been over a three-month period. It’s the best tool for finding people with diabetes even…...

In the adult population of Florida 2.4 million people have diabetes, 579,000 have diabetes but do not know it, and 5.8 million people have prediabetes. Angie Placeres, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, highlights it is important to see your primary care physician, at least once a year, because you will be able to…...

Dr. Pascual De Santis, Endocrinologist with Baptist Health South Florida, mentions the guidelines of American Diabetes Association to diagnose diabetes. “It's basically a fasting sugar or glucose, blood glucose, of 126 and above, hemoglobin a1c of 6.5 and above (the percentage of the hemoglobin that has a sugar attached to it and is representative of…...