Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.
Audio-Digest Internal Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:
Gastroenterology
Hematology and medical oncology
Rheumatology
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
Endocrinology
Infectious disease
Nephrology and hypertension
Cardiology
Geriatric medicine
The goal of this program is to improve the management of hypertension in patients with high cardiovascular risk and of lipid control. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Describe and discuss new and current treatment strategies for hypertension.
2: Recognize and treat resistant hypertension.
3: Identify risk factors for metabolic syndrome.
4: Describe the role of lipid abnormalities in diabetic macrovascular disease and premature cardiovascular mortality.
5: Describe management of dyslipidemia in diabetics and others with metabolic syndrome.
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