Interventional cardiology
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Nov 2, 2026
Lance AlexanderHOST
So could your years of poor sleep be impacting your heart? And does sleep matter more as you get older? On Live Well on MoneyFM 89.3, we have Dr.
Lance AlexanderHOST
Kua Che Lee, Interventional Cardiologist at Carrington Cardiology Singapore.
Lance AlexanderHOST
Dr. Kua, welcome to the show and good morning to you.
Lance AlexanderHOST
Hey, thanks Lance for having me on the show and good morning to everyone.
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Kua JieliGUEST
Yeah, let's
Lance AlexanderHOST
talk about that.
Lance AlexanderHOST
We're speaking to Dr. Kua Chia Lee, Interventional Cardiologist at Carrington Cardiology, Singapore.
Lance AlexanderHOST
Your body has a way of telling you when it is fatigued.
Howie FormanHOST
My father had a heart attack at 49, got angioplasty at the end of the year, got stented a few years later, benefits of Mevacor, um, and other things, and is alive and well at 93.
Howie FormanHOST
And when I think about the field, when I was a medical student and a resident, there was basically ... cardiology and there was this burgeoning field of interventional cardiology and maybe occasional people that might have called themselves VPS or, you know, electrophysiology.
Howie FormanHOST
It's huge right now.
Howie FormanHOST
You talked about the scale of the operation, but I wonder if you could talk from your historical perspective from the time when you were a medical student to now about how subspecialties have developed, how they've grown, and how it impacts patients.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
You know, we'll try to recontrol that rate and make sure you don't have a stroke.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
But, you know, other than that, you know, you gotta live with it," to we're, we're kinda curing AFib.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
Interventional cardiology is at a different phase in its development.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
Structural heart disease.
Howard FormanHOST
And when I think about the field, when I was a medical student and a resident, there was basically nothing.
Howard FormanHOST
cardiology and there was this burgeoning field of interventional cardiology and maybe occasional people that might have called themselves vps or you know electrophysiology it's huge right now you talked about the scale of the operation but i wonder if you could talk from your historical perspective from the time when you were a medical student to now about how subspecialties have developed, how they've grown, and how it impacts patients.
Howard FormanHOST
And then if you just want to end by saying for this question, what do you think the future is for cardiology? Because it's already at Yale bigger than most of our clinical departments, even though it's a section in internal medicine.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
Yeah.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
But, you know, other than that, you know, you got to live with it.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
to we're kind of curing AFib.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
Interventional cardiology is at a different phase in its development.
Eric VelazquezGUEST
Structural heart disease.