Yale Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds: "Renovations in the House of Medicine"

Objectives:

• To be able to articulate the evolving landscape of cardiovascular science and medicine, past, present, and future

• To recognize the importance of obesity and diabetes as a global pandemic with inevitable cardiovascular consequences

• To articulate several of the exciting opportunities presently available to address the evolving challenges of heart disease.

True of False Questions

• The impact of obesity on the spectrum of cardiovascular disease is not expected for another 10 years. FALSE

• The atherothrombotic manifestations of cardiovascular disease have remained largely stable over the past 20 years. FALSE
• The manifestations of cardiovascular disease are largely similar around the globe. FALSE