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Preventive Cardiology
Most of the cardiovascular disease a cardiologist treats was preventable a decade earlier. This collection covers the clinic work that happens before the catheter laboratory: lipid management beyond a single LDL target, blood pressure control that patients actually maintain, diabetes and obesity as cardiovascular diseases rather than endocrine ones, and the risk calculators that decide who gets treated.Titles here are written for the physician running a prevention or risk clinic, with prescribing detail, titration schedules and the trial evidence named — from the statin and ezetimibe literature through to the SGLT2 and GLP-1 cardiovascular outcome trials.Related reading sits in Best in Cardiology and across the full eBook library.Who these titles are written forPrimarily the physician or cardiologist running a risk or prevention clinic, and secondarily the general practitioner managing cardiovascular risk at scale. They assume prescribing-level knowledge and go into titration detail rather than stopping at principles. For material you can hand to the patient afterwards, see Lifestyle and Patient Health. Preventive cardiology is where the largest share of cardiovascular mortality is still winnable, and it is also where guidance moves fastest — lipid targets, blood pressure thresholds, diabetes agents with cardiovascular indications, and risk calculators have all been revised within the last few years. The material collected here is written for clinicians who have to apply that guidance in a real clinic rather than recite it: who to screen, when a borderline risk score should change management, how to have the statin conversation with a reluctant patient, and what to do when the evidence and the patient’s preferences point in different directions.
