Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Evaluation
Presenter: Lynette Lissin, M.D., clinical cardiologist, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, northern California
Learning Objectives:
- ASCVD guidelines and cardiac risk assessment
- Criteria for starting Statins, role for Aspirin?
- Hypertension treatment guidelines
- How does diabetes modify prevention and treatment guidelines
- How does smoking nicotine/ cannabis affect treatment thoughts? Cocaine use?
- Who gets a stress test?
- Regular Stress Test? Nuclear Stress Test? Echo Stress Test?
- Next steps after a positive Stress Test?
- Role of assessing Calcium Score? (2 different types of Cardiac CTs).
- CT for Calcium score vs Cardiac CT with contrast for perfusion
- Briefly touch on: Cardiac Cath, Stent, CABG
Dr. Lissin is a clinical cardiologist at the large multi-specialty Palo Alto Medical Foundation in northern California. She earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and is Board Certified in Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure as well as Echocardiography. She sees a wide range of ambulatory and hospitalized patients including adults with congenital heart disease and along the spectrum of congestive heart failure. Her clinic focuses on the prevention of coronary artery disease, hypertension, and genetic conditions, as well as those with cardio-oncology concerns. She enjoys incorporating aggressive lifestyle modification into risk reduction and disease management and frequently speaks to her large medical group and various communities about updates in cardiology.
