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From reactive to proactive: CHAMPIONS builds nationwide effort around PAD prevention
“We’ve always approached peripheral artery disease in a very reactive way in that we wait for a patient to show up in our office or the emergency room with claudication, rest pain or gangrene and only then do we intervene,…
‘Treat the water, not just the pipes’: Addressing prevention in vascular care
“The artery is ours and it should be all of it,” said Lily Johnston, MD. “Trying to reroute the blood flow without changing what runs through it is like changing the pipes in a house without addressing the toxic wastewater…
‘Cardiovascular disease at crossroads’: practitioners call for a definitive randomized trial comparing precision medicine and polypill
The prospect of death rates from cardiovascular disease once again ticking upward after more than a half century of decline has led to a call for a randomized trial comparing the two new—and distinct—approaches to prevention: precision medicine and the…