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Latest: WEBINAR: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Cardiovascular disease and heart failure
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Watch our new, free, bite-sized COVID-19 Need to Know webinars for primary healthcare professionals. Created to support HCPs during these unprecedented times, giving much needed guidance around how to manage high-risk patients. Watch the webinar and take a look at the factsheet for our latest webinar today.
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Advice for patients taking ACE inhibitors (ACEi) or Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) and Coronavirus (COVID19) infection
It has been suggested high blood pressure may be associated with increased risk of death in hospitalised Coronavirus infected subjects. On non-medical social media sites and some newspapers it has been suggested that commonly used drugs ACEi and ARBs may increase both the risk of infection and the severity of SARS-CoV2 (the virus causing this infection), which has led to some patients stopping their medication.
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CPD The role of primary care in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia
This article provides a pragmatic approach for primary care following NICE’s update to their guidance on identification and management of familial hypercholesterolaemia (CG 71) published in November 2017.
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COVID-19 and CV Management Series – online learning bites series Driving primary care to deliver the best in cardiovascular health
The Primary Care Cardiovascular Society has released a series of learning bites to support healthcare professionals during these unprecedented times with the COVID-19 pandemic.
