The Combined Impact of Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease is the World's Biggest Health Problem Today
The 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress Brings Together World-Renown
Clinicians to Address this Public Health Crisis
BOSTON, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading clinicians, medical
organizations, and the 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress will convene to
discuss and debate state-of-the-art therapies to prevent type 2 diabetes
and reduce cardiovascular risk in the growing number of patients at
increased cardiometabolic risk. The congress will take place October 19-21,
2006 at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston, M.A. and will attract
practicing endocrinology, cardiology and primary care clinicians throughout
North America.
"In previous centuries, the major scourges were from acute infectious
diseases, today, the impact is from the compilation of chronic diseases,
including diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease," according to Jay
Skyler, MD, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "The biggest health problem
facing the world today is from the combined impact of obesity, diabetes,
and cardiovascular disease."
An unprecedented group of prestigious medical organizations have joined
together in support of the 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress - making
the congress the most comprehensive and influential educational forum
available to the medical community. These supporters include the American
Diabetes Association; the American Heart Association (Council on Clinical
Cardiology, Epidemiology and Prevention, and Council on Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Metabolism); The Endocrine Society; American Society of
Hypertension; American Society of Preventive Cardiology; Preventive
Cardiology Nursing Association; American College of Preventive Medicine;
Association of Black Cardiologists; Association of Physician Assistants in
Cardiology; American Society of Endocrine Physician Assistants; American
Medical Woman's Association; and the Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and
Prevention.
"The current trends in obesity pose the greatest challenge to our
healthcare system over the next decades," said Christie Ballantyne, MD,
Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. "It is vital that
physicians and health care providers understand how to identify and manage
patients with obesity that are at increased risk for the development of
diabetes and cardiovascular disease."
"The 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress will be one of the first
educational events to fully evaluate cardiometabolic health from a
definition of cardiac risk to the widest variety of treatment modalities,"
said Richard Nesto, MD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School. "Field
experts will come together and help to fully define cardiometabolic risk
within the context of patient care both in the here and now."
"The 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress is an extremely important
initiative," stated Paolo Raggi, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology at
Emory University School of Medicine. "Cardiometabolic risk is an epidemic
which Americans have long overlooked and underestimated as far as inherent
cardiovascular risk is concerned."
About the 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress
The 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress will translate the latest
clinical data and research into practical and effective approaches to
identify and manage the approximately 25% of the US population at increased
Cardiometabolic risk. The goal of the congress is to improve patient
outcomes through early identification and intervention strategies for
patients with, or at risk of developing, diabetes and cardiovascular
disease.
Dina Kouveliotes
2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress
732-205-1830
dk@cardiometabolichealth.org Article
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