Peer Advisor Program: Addressing Residual Cardiovascular Risk

Please Note: This CME activity has expired. You may continue to view the material for educational purposes, but this activity is no longer eligible for CME credit.

CME Activity Notes:
This activity is part of a Peer Advisor, a series of multimedia CME activities developed with nationally recognized thought leaders in cardiology, specifically for the management of the patient with diabetes and atherogenic dyslipidemia.

To view the Peer Advisor in its entirety, please click below.

Course Objectives:
This CME Activity is intended for cardiologists, specifically for the management of the patient with diabetes and atherogenic dyslipidemia.

Upon completing this activity, you should be able to:

• Define the residual risk of cardiovascular disease.
• Discuss the clinical benefits of aggressive lipid management in patients with cardiovascular disease, particularly patients with diabetes.
• Identify and contrast classes of agents used to treat lipid abnormalities associated with cardiovascular disease.
• Discuss the safety and efficacy of fibrate therapy in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease.
• Discuss the use of combination statin and fibrate therapy as an optimal strategy in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease.

Accreditation:
Release Date: March 2007

Expiration Date: March 31, 2008

Millennium CME Institute, Inc., is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Millennium CME Institute, Inc., designates this educational program for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. © 2007 Millennium CME Institute, Inc. All rights reserved including translation into other languages. No part of this activity maybe reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from Millennium CME Institute, Inc.

Faculty Disclosure:
Millennium CME Institute, Inc., endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for Commercial Support. All faculty are required to disclose any commercial relationships or personal benefit with companies whose products are discussed in educational presentations and with companies who have provided the commercial support for this activity. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

The faculty listed below have declared the following arrangements and/or affiliations: Sidney Alexander, MD: Honoraria,Speaker, Research Grants: Merck; Pfizer; Abbott; Astra Zeneca.

The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the participating faculty and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or the recommendations of their affiliated institutions; Millennium CME Institute, Inc.; or any other persons. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this publication should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patients’ conditions, assessment of possible contraindications or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with the recommendations of other authorities.

This CME-certified activity contains information on commercial products that is outside of current FDA-approved labeling or information on the investigational use of products not yet approved by the FDA.

This CME-certified program is supported by an educational grant from Abbott.

Directions:
For each activity in the multimedia CME program, the learner should read the learning objectives and review the content in its entirety. After reviewing the material, the learner should complete the Activity Self-assessment Test consisting of a series of multiple-choice questions.

Upon successfully completing this activity as designed and achieving a passing score of 70% or higher on the Activity Self-assessment Test, participants will receive a continuing education credit letter awarding the appropriate credit.

Estimated time to complete this activity as designed is 4.0 hours.

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