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VIDEO: A focus on CVD prevention

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BOCA RATON, Fla. — Prevention is clearly the “most efficient approach” in the battle against CVD, Seth J. Baum, MD, FASPC, FACC, FACPM, FAHA, FNLA, told Cardiology Today.

“We have many ... therapeutics [and] observational tools ... at our disposal to enable us to prevent CVD,” Baum, president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, said. Baum is also the medical director of Women’s Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) at the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health and Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital; affiliate associate professor of clinical biomedical science in the department of integrated medicines at Florida State University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine; and founder and chief medical officer of Excel Medical Clinical Trials, LLC.

Prevention was a key theme of the 2016 ASPC Congress on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. Moving forward, he said, the ASPC “will continue to grow ... the data will continue to [accumulate], and we will continue to understand and utilize better the ways to prevent heart attack, stroke and death in our patients.”