Example sentences for: cvd
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Intensive lifestyle modifications such as exercise and weight loss should be made to improve cholesterol, blood pressure, and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors [2].
The patient is also started on low-dose aspirin, indicated for primary prevention of macrovascular disease in people with diabetes who have any risk factors for CVD [4], and a cholesterol-lowering agent, a statin, for his increased LDL cholesterol [6].
This recommendation was based on the low probability of doxazosin showing benefit over chlorthalidone for the primary endpoint, as well as the significantly increased occurrence of the secondary endpoint, combined cardiovascular disease (CVD) (encompassing CHD deaths, nonfatal MI, stroke, coronary revascularization procedures [coronary artery bypass graft or CABG, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or PTCA/stent], angina [hospitalized or treated as an outpatient], heart failure [HF/treated in the hospital or as an outpatient], and peripheral arterial disease [in-hospital or outpatient revascularization]) in the doxazosin arm (RR 1.25; 95% CI, 1.17-1.
This shift is already having an effect on the epidemiology of CVD and other NCDs, particularly in middle-income countries.
The effect of this hyperinsulinemic state in metabolic syndrome is also believed to be involved in excess pro-inflammatory and pro-thrombotic markers associated with the development of diabetes and CVD [15].