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The Cardiovascular CME podcast is a new educational offering from Mayo Clinic, featuring content geared towards physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners who are interested in exploring a multitude of cardiology-related topics. Tune in and subscribe to explore today’s most pressing cardiology topics with your colleagues at Mayo Clinic and gain valuable insights that can be directly applied to your practice. No CME credit offered for podcast episodes at this time.
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Monday May 24, 2021
The Role of Genetic Testing in Cardiovascular Disease
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Genetic Testing in Cardiovascular Disease
Guest: Iftikhar J. Kullo, M.D. (@iftikhar_kullo)
Host: Stephen L. Kopecky, M.D. (@DrSteveKopecky)
The Framingham risk score and other calculator models have been used to assess patients' risk of cardiovascular disease for more than 60 years. The models help to identify patients as having low risk, intermediate risk or high risk — but unless patients are assessed on the day they have a cardiovascular event, they may not be flagged as having high risk. Genetic risk assessment provides an exciting new avenue to help improve the risk prediction equations.
Joining us today to discuss genetic testing in cardiovascular disease is Iftikhar J. Kullo, M.D., a preventive cardiologist and professor of medicine here at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Specific topics discussed:
- Why genetic testing is needed for coronary risk stratification
- How to assess genetic risk of cardiovascular disease
- Genetic and genomewide polygenic risk scores
- Typical patients and a focus on patients at intermediate risk
- Genetic testing for patients with familial hypercholesterolemia
Connect with Mayo Clinic's Cardiovascular Continuing Medical Education online at https://cveducation.mayo.edu or on Twitter @MayoClinicCV.
No CME credit offered for this episode.
Podcast transcript can be found here.