Atherothrombosis Risk

Posted on Oct 5, 2010 in Expired CME | 0 comments

Prevent the Event: Comprehensive Strategies to Identify Patients at Risk for Atherothrombosis

 

Learning Objective:

• Implement evidence-based pathways and emerging assessment tools to provide comprehensive risk reduction for patients with atherosclerotic heart disease

Overview

Atherosclerosis, a hardening of an artery specifically due to an atheromatous plaque, is an ongoing process that typically affects the medium- and larger-sized arteries of the cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and peripheral vascular beds. Recent US data have confirmed that despite a decrease in age-standardized national death rates, the absolute number of deaths from these conditions continues to increase,[1] and prevalence is sharply increasing in other parts of the world. Thus, atherothrombotic diseases are, and are projected still to be, the leading cause of death worldwide by 2020.[2]

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