Catalog

Learn the relationship between lifestyle factors and cardiovascular disease and how the current healthcare model influences treatment options.

This overview will address recent advances in understanding statin therapy, including potential modulating effects of leptin. Benefits such as those in HIV positive patients and those with ILD will be examined as well as disparities in statin prescriptions.

Understand the ways in which poor nutrition promotes and accentuates health inequities and learn about the benefits of plant-based diets to reduce cardiovascular risk factors and kidney disease.

Understand the ways in which poor nutrition promotes and accentuates health inequities and ethnic disparities and learn about the benefits of plant-based diets to reduce cardiovascular risk factors.

Learn about the results of a study comparing the effects of a whole-food plant-based vegan diet with and without extra virgin olive oil on cardiometabolic risk factors.

Learn about the controversial research on the role of dietary sodium intake and human heath, limitations of traditional markers for studying sodium intake, and the association between adding salt to foods and risk of cardiovascular diseases and premature death.

Learn how a plant-based diet can impact cardiovascular health and how it is different from other cardiac diets.

Learn the beneficial components of soy and how these affect cardiovascular risk factors.