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Podcast: Baptist HealthTalk
Episode: Cardiometabolic Disease: Understanding A Global Killer
Description: Cardiometabolic disease is the number one cause of death in the world – so why haven’t you heard about it? Maybe because its components, (including hypertension, high triglycerides, insulin resistance, obesity, and low LDL cholesterol), have traditionally been treated individually, instead of as a related cluster of conditions that, when combined, significantly increase a person’s risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.Medical providers are assembling multidisciplinary teams of experts to address the disease with a combination of lifestyle changes and medical therapies. Guest Theodore Feldman, M.D., medical director of community health at Baptist H...