What Are the Major Risk Factors for Heart Attack in Patients with Diabetes?
Probably, the main risk factors that I see in the operating room, is the patient will come in, and let’s give you a typical case. We had a case today of a young guy that was in his 40s. It used to be he’ll be skinny on the table. Of course now, he’s very heavy. The guy certainly looked like Santa Clause, lying flat and he was a pregnant male, so to speak. I think it’s telling us that what risk factors does this man have? The most important risk factor is simply an eyeball test, and the eyeball test is you look at him and they’re way overweight. Your body wasn’t meant to keep all that weight. Now, I can give you lab tests but they won’t tell you what’s going to happen to you right then. The lab test is just simply a measurement of what circulates through your body. What you’re asking me for though is will I have a heart attack? No one can tell you that. I can tell you the odds are, that you’re high risk, but I can look at you and tell you that. The most important thing of this entire th
