The NICE lipid modification guideline, published in May this year, covered both primary and secondary prevention of CVD. This article will look briefly at the principles of this guideline in relation to primary prevention and then go further to highlight the key issues regarding statin prescribing for people established to be at high cardiovascular risk.
Why do People with Diabetes Fall Off the Rails?
Why is it that some patients with diabetes are able to stick to the ‘straight and narrow’ while others fall off the rails? I decided to look at my client group to see if I could pick up on any particular issues that made people either forget that they have diabetes, or struggle to continue to control their blood glucose levels as they had previously been doing. This article reviews what I found and offers some suggestions on how to help patients get back in control.
The metabolic syndrome: myth or clinically useful marker?
The European perspective
Leave nothing to chance
A case of severe aortic stenosis
Cardiovascular risk management series: 2 – Using guidelines as a framework for cardiovascular risk management
Reducing the impact of vascular disease: the proposed Vascular Risk Programme for risk assessment and management
Measurement of baseline total cholesterol: new data from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database
Ambulatory ECG monitoring in primary care
Cardiac arrhythmia affects more than 700,000 people in England and is consistently in the top ten reasons for hospital admission, consuming significant accident and emergency time and bed days.1 In the general population, arrhythmias are normally quite minor, silent, and typically benign. Symptoms may affect the patient enough to be both disruptive and distressful. In […]
