Primary Prevention of Cardio-Vascular Disease

• NZ Guidelines
• NZ Guidelines Group Website
• Threshold for Pharmacologic Treatment. Risk Tables
• Emerging Risk Factors
• Adjusting Risk for Additional Risk Factors

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• USA Guidelines
  • More Younger Persons Eligible for Pharmacologic Treatment Compared to NZ Guidelines

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• Additional Risk Factors
• Adjusting Risk for Additional Risk Factors

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• The INTERHEART Study
• Significance of Conventional Risk Factors in Different Races
• BMI measurement leads to underestimation of obesity

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• Diabetes
• New targets for management- notes from ASEANZ 2009
• Controversies- notes from ASEANZ 2009
• Macrovascular complications- more than just HbA1C- notes from ASEANZ 2009

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• The Metabolic Syndrome
• Definition

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• Looking Beyond LDL and HDL Cholesterol
• Apolipoprotein-B and A1
  Notes from ASEANZ 2009
• Non-HDL cholesterol Levels

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• Supplements
• Folic Acid

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• Non-Invasive Measures of Atherosclerosis: CT Coronary Calcium Score
• St Francis Heart Study
• Dallus Heart Study