A Mediterranean approach to diet
The Mediterranean diet is a dietary pattern based on the eating habits and traditional foods from the olive-growing regions of the Mediterranean basin before the…
Tag: CVD
Can Australia do better at detecting heart valve disease?
Timely detection of heart valve disease is suboptimal because patients do not know what it is and GPs do not routinely perform auscultation, an Australian…
Transdermal vs oral MHT: What difference does the treatment route make to CVD risk?
Researchers have assessed the cardiovascular risks for a variety of hormone therapies for postmenopausal women, finding ‘diverse effects’ for different treatments. For example, postmenopausal women…
A cosmetic concern that is more than skin deep
Fen, a 61-year-old woman, visits her GP to review the results of recent blood tests. She is concerned about a lump under her right eye,…
GP’s ex-wife sues him for mismanaging her cardiac risk factors during their marriage
The ex-wife of a GP who he treated for 17 years during their marriage is suing him for negligence, accusing him of failing to manage…
A GP guide to colchicine in coronary artery disease
Despite advances in medicine, cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality within Australia.1 Patients with known coronary artery disease (CAD) have a…
Lipid-based CVD score targets ‘troubling’ intermediate-risk patients
Australian doctors have created a lipid-based risk score to help manage the ‘troubling group’ of patients at intermediate risk of CVD. Based on a routine…
Genomic testing in primary care
Genomic testing describes the assessment of genetic information across multiple genes, all of which, together or separately, can provide information about an individual’s health. Genomic…
A GP guide to cardiovascular disease in women
Need to know: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in women.1,2 × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the medical community to…
How the Heart Foundation chose Australia’s new CVD risk equation
The PREDICT-1° algorithm trumped nine other candidate risk equations for use in Australia even though it is the only one without external validation, say the authors…
