PH - Managing Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Question 1

What is one of the most common conditions which is associated with health inequalities?

Answer 1

Cardiovascular disease. Slide 6

Question 2

What are the 3 prevetions when managing CVD risk factors in a population?

Answer 2

Primary - reduce incidence in a population
Secondary - Detection and treatment of pre-symptomatic disease
Tertiary - reducing incidence of chronic incapacity among those with symptomatic disease. Slide 12

Question 3

What are the pros and cons of risk scores?

Answer 3

Cannot predict absolute risk perfectly

They are useful in assessing or estimating risk for prioritising treatment on an equitable basis. Slide 20

Question 4

What is absolute risk and relative risk?

Answer 4

Absolute: The total risk, the percentage chance of an individual having an event over a period of time
Relative: the risk of someone having a medical event compared to someone else. Slide 23

Question 5

What people have a true higher CVD risk?

Answer 5

People with AF
Specific minority ethnic groups
Women with premature menopause. Slide 25

Question 6

If an asymptomatic patient has been assessed with a risk of >/= 20% for a first cadiovascular event within ten years are they high or low risk?

Answer 6

High risk. Slide 27

Question 7

What are the 5 key recommendations to help reduce cardiovascular disease?

Answer 7

Diet
Physical Activity
Smoking
Antiplatelet therapy (however not primary prevention)
Lipid lowering. Slide 28+29

Question 8

What are ABIs?

Answer 8

Alcohol breif interventions which are short, evidence-based, structural and non-confrontational conversations about alcohol consumption. Slide 36