NEW ORLEANS — President Donald Trump was . That condition may not sound familiar to many people, so we asked a specialist physician to explain what it is. And he says many don't know they too are living with it and that there are treatments.

To understand chronic venous insufficiency or CVI we turned to interventional cardiologist Dr. Craig Walker. At the Cardiovascular Institute of the South in Houma, he has pioneered nationally recognized limb-saving treatments for many types of vascular illnesses.

“Let me tell you how common this is. Many suggest, as I've mentioned, it's more prevalent than diabetes and hypertension put together,” said Dr. Walker, Founder of the Cardiovascular Institute of the South and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tulane and LSUHSC who is editor of Vascular Dis

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