Your patient is a 59-year-old man with a family history of stroke. He asks you if there are small changes he can make to his diet to decrease his risk of stroke.
Your patient is a 51-year-old man with a family history of cardiovascular disease and cancer. He asks you if his diet increases the likelihood that he will die from one of those diseases.
Your patient is a 46-year-old woman who is concerned about her risk of developing heart disease. She eats a typical American diet and doesn’t eat many fruits or vegetables. She asks if there are any simple...
Lowering blood pressure before starting pharmacological therapy is important for patients with hypertension. What target should these patients meet before initiating therapy?
In this new interactive quiz, we present a case of a 15-year-old girl who developed bilateral lower extremity weakness and paresthesia after having undergone partial parathyroidectomy with removal of an...
In this slideshow, view images from case reports involving conditions relating to cardiometabolic disease. Each slide links to the full case report for more details.
Tom is a 47-year-old man who is concerned about his risk of heart disease. Recently, he cut back on soda drinking and replaced it with several cups of 100% fruit juice each day, but has read that so much...
