Filtered Projects: Detect and Treat Risk Factors

Goal 2: Detect and Treat Risk Factors Objective: Increase the percentage of patients who have their CVD risk factors detected and who implement lifestyle and/or pharmacologic intervention and successfully control their blood pressure and cholesterol levels and weight to prevent the development of CVD.

Selected Performance Projects include:

2002 National Cardiovascular Health Conference Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Aspire for Healthy Hearts Association of Black Cardiologists National Physicians’ Network ATP III: Third Report of the NCEP Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults Clinical Guidelines on Overweight and Obesity Professional/Patient Outreach High Blood Pressure Control in Older Americans NHLBI Nutrition Database/Analysis Tool Partnership to Strenghten the Heartbeat of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Communities (CVH Training) Partnership to Strengthen the Heartbeat of Native American and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Communities Salud para su Corazon (Health for Your Heart) National Dissemination

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