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Managing Diabetes to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: A Guideline Quiz
Diabetes is a primary risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Find out how well you know the guideline recommendations for reducing that risk with the first of 4 quizzes.
FOCUS ON: Preventive Cardiology
Interest is growing rapidly in preventive cardiology as a subspecialty of cardiovascular medicine.1,2 The field encompasses a number of medical conditions associated with cardiovascular risk, including diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and obesity.
Components of preventive cardiology include risk assessment, lifestyle management, therapeutics, biomarkers and/or genetics.
Patient Care will focus in this series on managing the 4 primary risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease noted above. Find out what you know about guideline-recommended approaches to diabetes management in primary and secondary CV prevention with quiz #1.
