Back to Basics: Making sense of peripheral arterial disease (PAD)
Back to Basics: Chronic kidney disease
Back to Basics: Diagnosing type 2 diabetes – blood glucose measurements
Back to Basics: Choices in smoking cessation pharmacotherapy
Back to Basics: Making sense of acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
Back To Basics: Making sense of healthy and unhealthy fats
Back to Basics: How drugs work in heart failure
Back to Basics: How do diuretics work in heart failure
Back to Basics: Diabetic foot guide
Back to Basics: Glitazones: how they work
Back to Basics: Calculating cardiovascular risk: ‘How To’ guide for the new British Guidelines
Calculating cardiovascular risk is at the heart of primary prevention – it gives us a practical way of assessing who we should be targeting with lifestyle changes and drug treatment to reduce the chance of them suffering a heart attack or stroke in the future. The new Joint British Guidelines make it very clear who we should be screening for CVD and how to calculate their risk.
