Your patient is a 36-year-old woman who often drinks 3 to 5 cups of tea each day. At a recent well visit, she asks if her tea drinking could have any detrimental or beneficial effects on her health in the...
Your patient is a 54-year-old man concerned about his risk of heart disease and diabetes. Both conditions run in his family. He has begun to incorporate healthier foods into his diet, but has found it...
Your patient is a 52-year-old woman who is concerned about her risk of heart disease. When asked about her diet, she tells you that she tries to eat healthy, and has recently switched from regular to diet...
The American Heart Association has identified 7 key risk factors that patients can improve through lifestyle changes to help achieve ideal cardiovascular (CV) health. Print out this sheet of Life's...
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.
Paula is a 51-year-old woman whose diet includes 2 to 3 sugar sweetened beverages per day. She knows sweetened beverages aren’t good for her and asks you what kind of impact this could have on her health.
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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...
It has been unclear whether nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is directly related to cardiovascular disease or whether this relationship is confounded by metabolic factors of NAFLD and CVD. What do you...
