Quitting smoking, weight gain, and risk of CV events
Smoking cessation often causes weight gain that is difficult to manage. Bearing in mind the risk of cardiovascular events, is it better for a patient to continue smoking or to put on weight?
Hypertension: facts, fiction, and follies
A lecture by Prof. Franz H. Messerli, from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA, delivered at McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków in May 2016.
Glomerulonephritis: an update
A lecture by Prof. Jürgen Floege, from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, delivered at McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków in May 2016.
HOPE-3, BP treatment, milestones in CV prevention
Prof. Salim Yusuf talks about goals and results of the HOPE-3 trial, discusses blood pressure treatment, and highlights the milestones in cardiovascular prevention in the past 20 years.