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Can We Treat a Person with Heart Disease the Same Way We Treat a Person with Diabetes and Heart Disease?

Can We Treat a Person with Heart Disease the Same Way We Treat a Person with Diabetes and Heart Disease? (0:27)

Whether or not a person has diabetes greatly affects the treatment they receive following heart attack or heart failure. HealthMaker Daniel Kelly, MD, explains the significant difference in this video.

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If you treat a diabetic if let's say after a heart attack, or even with heart failure, the efficacy of that treatment is reduced compared to the non-diabetic. Otherwise, a standard therapist for heart and vascular disease are not working as well, and that is because we do not understand this rather unique form of heart and vascular disease, that occurs in a context of diabetes.