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1/14/25 - Medical Grand Rounds: Cardiometabolic Disease- Mechanisms and Implications for Therapy

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

    • Review the epidemiology of CVD attributable to cardiometabolic disorders.
    • Review the pathophysiology of cardiovascular complications of diabetes.
    • Review approaches to heart failure risk prediction in cardiometabolic disorders.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

    Suggested Additional Reading:

  • The Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium NEJM. 2023;389:1273-85.
  • Patel KV et al. Circulation 2024, 49;293-304
  • Abel ED et al. Cell 2024, 187:3789-3820


Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Dale Abel, MD, PhD — William S. Adams Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chair and Executive Medical Director, David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed. No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.