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CME
Overview of Metabolic Syndrome (Slides With Audio)
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME
Comprehensive Insights Into the Pathophysiology of Mixed Dyslipidemia: The Role of Obesity and Insulin Resistance (Slides With Audio)
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME
Long-term Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Through Chronic Obesity Management: A Focus on the Endocannabinoid System (Slides With Audio)
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME
Panel Discussion (Slides With Audio)
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME
Targeting the Interplay of Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Mixed Dyslipidemia: An Integrative Approach to Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk
Explore the critical factors that play a role in the metabolic syndrome and cardiometabolic risk, as well as the steps physicans need to take to reduce this risk.
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME/CE
From AGS 2008: Ethics and Quality of Life in the Elderly: Recent Advances
A report on framing informed consent decisions in individuals with early dementia and the impact of depressive symptoms on quality of life.
Conference Coverage, July 2008
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Physicians for Sale: How Medical Professional Organizations Exploit Their Members
To improve the state of US healthcare, physicians need to rethink what their profession is and identify what they need to do to regain their professional integrity.
Expert Viewpoint, July 2008
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CME/CE
New Approaches to Managing Dyslipidemia: Risk Reduction Beyond LDL-C
Managing cholesterol is only a single facet of an overall cardiac wellness strategy designed to control the full and complex array of CHD risk factors.
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Gender, and Race -- What, When, How It Is, or Is Not, Treated
Hypertension, diabetes, race, gender, and age -- not to mention SBP vs DBP: findings this month challenge long-held beliefs and practices and underline how simple improving patient outcomes could be.
Expert Viewpoint, July 2008
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Building Physician Connectivity for e-Prescribing
Kevin Hutchinson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Prematics, Inc., in Vienna, Virginia, tells us how to move e-prescribing forward.
Expert Viewpoint, July 2008
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News From Clinical Trials in Multifactorial Hypertension
ASH 2008: Substudy and other data from the ON-TARGET, TRANSCEND, AASK, ACCORD, EXCEED, and ACCOMPLISH trials.
Conference Coverage, July 2008
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Pediatric Hypertension: Does It Have an Impact on Cognition?
ASH 2008: Hypertension is an early warning of cardiovascular events later in life -- but when it occurs in children is it already a sign of cognitive deficits?
Conference Coverage, July 2008
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Survival Impact of Vitamin D Therapy in Hemodialysis Patients
Lavinia Aura Negrea, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western University, reviews recent survival data and the role of vitamin D supplementation in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Expert Viewpoint, July 2008
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Does Switching Statins Increase the Risk for Adverse Events?
Patients on statin therapy sometimes must switch from one statin to another. Does that increase the risk of developing an adverse reaction?
Expert Viewpoint, July 2008
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Risk Factors for Retinal Vein Occlusion
Is there a link between traditional risk factors for vascular disease and retinal vein occlusion?
Expert Viewpoint, July 2008
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CME
HDL-Targeted Therapeutics: Emerging Strategies for the Comprehensive Management of Mixed Dyslipidemia (Slides with Audio)
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME
HDL as a Therapeutic Target: Mechanisms and Pathways (Slides with Audio)
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME
Panel Discussion (Slides with Audio)
Commentary, July 2008
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CME
Rationale for Looking Beyond LDL to Optimize CV Risk Reduction (Slides with Audio)
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
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CME
Pathways to Protecting the Health of the Vascular Wall: Lessons Learned From Imaging (Slides with Audio)
Review the biology of HDL and the rationale behind raising low HDL-C levels to reduce residual cardiovascular risk, and evaluate vascular imaging and current therapeutics for effective treatment.
Slide/Lecture Presentation, July 2008
