The Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

The Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease course will help you to gain a solid understanding of the assessment and management of cardiovascular disease risk factors.

You will gain an understanding of the critical importance of accurate clinical history taking and will learn how to carry out a details cardiovascular disease risk assessment.

You will learn how to analyse data collected at review in such a way as to calculate a persons risk of having a heart attack or stroke over the next 10 years.

You will also learn how to carry out a detailed annual hypertension review.

You will gain an understanding of national and international CVD Primary Prevention and Hypertension guideline recommendations and will recognise potential barriers to the successful implementation of these guideline recommendations.