Mardi Gras Heart Health
If you are on a low-sodium diet or prescription medication for high blood pressure, here's how to celebrate Mardi Gras safely.
William Bennett, MD, PhD
Cardiology
Dr. William Bennett earned an MD/PhD degree from The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and fellowships in Cardiology and Vascular Medicine at Stanford University, and an advanced fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Yale University.
His clinical interests include management of patients with advanced cardiovascular disease; complex coronary and peripheral vascular interventions; critical limb ischemia; and carotid stenting in high surgical risk patients.
Dr. Bennett is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Physicians.
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