Preventive Cardiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What are the four modifiable risk factors for atherosclerosis? _____, hypercholesterolemia (LDL), smoking, diabetes

Answer: Hypertension

Flashcard 2: A patient with low-risk PE will be treated with _____ alone

Answer: anticoagulation

Flashcard 3: _____ score is used to assess the risk of stroke in patients who have atrial fibrillation

Answer: CHA2DS2-VASc

Flashcard 4: Patients with BP > _____/10 mmHg above goal should use two antihypertensives

Answer: 20

Flashcard 5: Reduction of weight (maintaining within normal BMI range) reduces the systolic BP by _____ mmHg/10kg wt loss

Answer: 5-20

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Answer: trials and studies for cardiovascular diseases

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Flashcard 7: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan decreases the _____ BP by 8-14 mm Hg

Answer: Systolic

Flashcard 8: In patients with hypertension and what comorbidity should ACE inhibitors / ARBs become first line? _____

Answer: Hypertension with Diabetes Mellitus

Flashcard 9: Electric cardioversion is _____effective in the management of Multifocal atrial tachycardia

Answer: in

Flashcard 10: What pathology is indicated on the ECG below? _____

Answer: 1st degree AV block