It s a scenario that repeats itself year after year for Dr. Sanchez.
Patients come in with some familiar complaints.
They have sedentary lifestyles, bad eating habits and are overweight. We run tests on them and the red flags go up high cholesterol, high blood pressure, early stages of heart disease and borderline diabetes, he comments. A lot of them say they ll change their lifestyle habits, but are unable to do so. We end up prescribing medications and try to beat the clock before serious complications take hold. Then there are those uplifting success stories.