dr. mosqueda: in our ideal world... we would compress all of our diseases and all of our problems into the very last few hours of life. so you'd go through development, you'd live a good, long life, and then when you're 120, you'd just drop dead, and it's not until that last hour that you'd develop diabetes, heart problems and a stroke. the reality, though... is that people tend to get more chronic illnesses as they get older. next, i'm going to listen to your chest. the chronic conditions that affect the elderly often begin in mid-life, or even earlier. take diabetes, for example, a disease that can be kept under control with proper diet and exercise. but if the diabetes is ignored, keptit can be deadly. dr. lipson: after... ten, 15 years, in patients who haven't taken care of themselves as well as one might like, one starts seeing complications. the complications i'm talking about are the chronic complications which are largely neurologic and vascular. and these complications are varied. one can see large vessel compl