Welcome to the Global CV Risk in the Primary Care Setting educational initiative, which employs an evidence-based approach for the effective management of patients with hypertension who have concomitant risk factors. By making careful choices about therapy and treatment, practitioners can maximize patient benefits by utilizing therapies that may have beneficial effects beyond a single target.
What Are We Missing? Can Evidence-Based Medicine Help Us to Practically Address Cardiovascular Risk in the Primary Care Setting?
Meet David M. Discover how his hypertension, progression to diabetes, and CV risk relate and how to manage these effectively.
Release Date: 10/2007
Expires: 10/2008
 
Credits available: 1.25 CME, 1.2 CNA/ANNC
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ACE Inhibitors for Reducing Global CV Risk
Evidence Against a Class Effect
This bulletin reviews data from trials that evaluated treatment options for patients with both hypertension and other risk factors for CV disease.
Release Date: 05/15/2007
Expires: N/A
 
Credits available: Not for credit.
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Managing Hypertension and Associated Risk Factors Among African American Women
Listen to Keith Ferdinand, MD, discuss the specific considerations for treating hypertension and managing cardiovascular risk in African American women.
Release Date: 10/2007
Expires: N/A
Credits available: Not for credit.
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Ambulatory BP Monitoring in Clinical Practice
Listen to William White, MD, explain the benefits of measuring 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure, including the elimination of the "white coat" effect and the discovery of masked hypertension.
Release Date: 10/2007
Expires: N/A
Credits available: Not for credit.
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Hypertension and Stroke Prevention
Listen to Henry Black, MD, highlight the importance of treating hypertension and its relationship to stroke prevention.
Release Date: 10/2007
Expires: N/A
Credits available: Not for credit.
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Clinical Management of Hypertensive Heart Disease:
Preventing Heart Failure
Listen to Clyde Yancy, MD, discuss the relationship between treating hypertension and associated risk factors and preventing heart failure.
Release Date: 11/2007
Expires: N/A
Credits available: Not for credit.
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Prehypertension as a Predictor of Hypertension
Listen to L. Michael Prisant, MD, discuss the latest blood pressure values of the JNC 7, including the Prehypertension classification and its association with increased cardiovascular risk.
Release Date: 12/2007
Expires: N/A
Credits available: Not for credit.
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Signs Along the Risky Road to CHD
A unique, online, case-based needs assessment survey that will provide some interesting insights into a patient whose coronary risk profile is worsening.
Release Date: 5/2007
Expires: N/A
 
Credits available: Not for credit.
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Hypertension Control: Getting to Goal
Listen to an exchange of viewpoints and expert opinion from Eliot Brinton, MD and Domenic Sica, MD and earn 0.75 CME credit.
Release Date: 10/2007
Expires: 10/2008
Credits available: 0.75 CME credit.
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Managing Dyslipidemia and the Prevention of Macrovascular Disease
Listen to an exchange of viewpoints and expert opinion from Eliot Brinton, MD and Ronald Goldberg, MD and earn 0.75 CME credit.
Release Date: 10/2007
Expires: 10/2008
Credits available: 0.75 CME credit.
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