VDF HealthCasts Continue

The Vascular Disease Foundation is proud to continue its audio HealthCasts that cover all aspects of vascular disease. Our guests are the leading scientific and clinical experts in their respective fields.

HealthCasts are hosted by Dr. David Meyerson and produced by Dr. Kerry Stewart. Dr. Meyerson is a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins and a scientific advisor to VDF. Dr. Stewart is a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and a member of the VDF Board of Directors.

Here are the latest HealthCasts episodes and topics:

Episode 18: Eye Disease: A Consequence of Vascular Disease and Diabetes
Dr. Stuart Dankner, a pediatric ophthalmologist in Baltimore, discusses how diabetes affects the eye and how to prevent or delay eye complications. Many of the same risk factors for vascular disease, including diabetes and obesity, also are the risk factors for eye disease.

Episode 19: Raynaud's Disease: A Condition of Vasospasm of Arteries that Occurs with Cold or Stress
Dr. Heather Gornik, a cardiologist specializing in vascular medicine in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, discusses Raynaud's Disease, a condition in which the arteries in the fingers and toes become suddenly narrowed in response to cold exposure, causing the digits to turn sequentially white, blue, or red.

Episode 20: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Part 1
Dr. Elizabeth Ratchford, a vascular medicine specialist at Johns Hopkins and also a member of the VDF Scientific Advisory Board, introduces the topic of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), which is a progressive weakening of the aortic wall that causes a ÒballooningÓ of this major blood vessel.

Episode 21: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Part 2
Dr. Elizabeth Ratchford continues her discussion on the topic of abdominal aortic aneurysm.

HealthCasts may be found on VDF's Web site at www.vdf.org/resources, iTunes, Feedburner, Yahoo, and other sites. Listening instructions and a complete description of each episode may be found on VDF's Web site. Our continued thanks go to Drs. Meyerson and Stewart for volunteering their time and energy to the creation and production of these informative HealthCasts.