AARP: Diabetes Centers Offer Comprehensive Care

Cardiologist Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD, was in medical school when diabetes struck his family — twice. His wife developed type 1 diabetes just before their wedding. “A short time afterward, my father was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and within two years had a heart attack,” he says. 

In early 2019, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, opened the Saint Luke's Michael & Marlys Haverty Cardio­metabolic Center of Excellence, with Kosiborod as its co-director. There are now similar clinics in Florida, Ohio, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York and Indiana. They offer a new kind of diabetes care that’s popping up at medical centers across the U.S. — looking not just at blood sugar levels but also at the disease’s major effects on the heart, blood vessels, kidneys and other parts of the body.

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