Assessment of medical specialists was introduced to ensure patient safety and to maintain professional knowledge. Cardiovascular specialist assessment is challenging, as the ongoing development of new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peripheral artery disease, or PAD, is a leading cause of lower extremity amputations in the U.S. Health care use ...

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH: Let me turn now to Dr Navar to discuss what I think is an important part of the discussion. She’s done a lot of work on this. How do we actually estimate patients’ risk for ...

CMS released proposals to update cardiovascular disease risk assessment and risk management services. The organization proposed coding and payment for an atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk ...

Read this article to learn how to conduct an advanced cardiovascular assessment to reveal heart abnormalities and associated symptoms and risk factors. Cardiovascular disease remains one of the ...

Sometimes, a study on one topic can reveal important issues in another. Case in point: A recent Lancet study explored what a person’s life was like before they developed chronic pain — the diseases ...

Traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease (CVD) uses several factors to compile scores to formulate an estimated CVD risk, used by clinicians to advise their patients. Coronary artery ...

Worldwide, non-cardiac surgery is associated with an average overall complication rate of between 7 and 11 percent and a mortality rate between 0.8 and 1.5 percent, depending on safety precautions. Up ...

A sore on the foot that will not heal is not only an inconvenience; in people with diabetes, it may be the first sign that the limb is not getting enough blood. When circulation falters, even small ...