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Physical Activity Prescription for Cardiovascular Prevention

…psychological factors, goals and the intended setting. Pre participation screening should follow applicable cardiovascular exercise screening guidance. In individuals with cardiovascular disease, an exercise test…

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Assessment and Treatment

…Very high Extreme obesity ≥40 III Extremely high BMI is useful for screening and population level risk estimation, but it does not characterize body composition…

Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

…Depression, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, HIV infection or other circumstances that may affect cessation or treatment monitoring. Single question screening can identify unhealthy drug use requiring…

Carotid Artery Disease: Screening, Medical Therapy and Revascularisation

…reported as 0–3.1%. In contrast, within selected high risk populations, prevalence may be sufficiently high for targeted screening to be cost effective. For…

Familial and Genetic Screening in Premature Cardiovascular Disease

…For example, heterozygous carriers in a clearly recessive cardiomyopathy may not require the same follow up as individuals at risk in an autosomal dominant family…

Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: Diagnosis, Cascade Screening and Treatment

…of tendon xanthomas, corneal arcus and xanthelasma. Potential secondary causes of hypercholesterolaemia. The likelihood of a monogenic disorder and the need for family based screening

Primary Aldosteronism: Screening and Management

…hypertension matched for age, sex and blood pressure, affected patients have more frequent stroke, nonfatal myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation, as well as greater cardiovascular…

Indications, Contraindications, and Preparations for Exercise Stress Testing

…Indications for exercise stress test Indications have been discussed in Introduction to Exercise ECG. The most common indications are as follows: Assessment of cardiovascular risk…

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening and Surveillance

…source material does not provide a detailed standardized physical examination protocol beyond assessment for a pulsatile abdominal mass and associated manifestations. Screening for AAA General…

Gynaecological examination and cervical smear

…does not attend for a gynaecological examination, or who prefers to take the sample herself, is given a vaginal self sampling kit. A positive self…

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