New Zealand Cardiovascular Guidelines Handbook: Developed for Primary Care Practitioners

CONTENTS......Page 8
Using this Handbook......Page 4
NZ Cardiovascular Risk Charts......Page 5
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment......Page 10
Lipids......Page 16
Blood Pressure......Page 17
Interpreting the Fasting Plasma Glucose.........Page 18
Measures of Weigh and Truncal Obesity......Page 19
Smoking History......Page 20
Goals and Targets......Page 21
General Lifestyle Interventions......Page 25
Specific Lifestyle Interventions......Page 26
Intensive Lifestyle Interventions......Page 29
Smoking Cessation Interventions......Page 30
Complementary and alternative therapies......Page 34
Lipid Modification......Page 35
Blood pressure lowering......Page 41
Long-term use of antiplatelet therapy......Page 44
Diabetes......Page 46
Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter......Page 51
Angina and myocarial infarction......Page 60
New stroke......Page 62
Life after stroke......Page 65
Appendix A......Page 68
Appendix B......Page 69
Appendix C......Page 70
Appendix D......Page 73
Appendix E......Page 74
List of Tables......Page 75
List of Additional Figures on CD Rom......Page 76
Abbreviations......Page 77