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VIDEO: Dr. Hilkovitz - Diabetes And Heart Disease, What Is The Connection?

January 8, 2009 - 2:29pm 420 reads 0 comments

Dr. Hilkovitz shares the association between diabetes and heart disease.

Dr. Hilkovitz:
Diabetes is a major cause of heart disease because in the prediabetic stage, before the sugar shows up, the major problems are cholesterol excesses and overweight and high blood pressure, and those three things set the stage for heart disease and blood vessel disease, even before the sugar shows up.

About Dr. Hilkovitz, M.D., B.Ch.:
Dr. Gabriel Hilkovitz has been in private practice for 51 years working in internal medicine, primary care, with an emphasis in diabetes and works in connection with the Arizona Heart Institute. He is a former Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Hilkovitz was born and educated in South Africa and also engaged in academia in London, England and the United States.

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