PRIMARY PREVENTION AND HEART DISEASE (Cardiology) Dr FINK EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
1. Primary prevention is used when: No clinical signs or
symptoms of ASCVD
2. What does primary prevention aim at delaying? atheroma formation in persons
who have not
suffered a serious complication
of atherosclerosis
3. What does Secondary prevention entail? - Clinically manifest ASCVD
- Secondary prevention strategies
4. Preventing the development of CV risk factors in the
general population relates to what stage of prevention for ASCVD?
Primordial Prevention
5. What are strategies of primordial prevention? Diet, lifestyle, environmental solutions, health promotion
6. Preventing CV events before they occur in asymptomatic subjects with CV risk factors but no evidence
of subclinical atherosclerosis relates to what stage of
prevention for ASCVD?
Primary prevention
7. What are strategies of primary prevention? Diet, lifestyle,
health promotion,
medications
8. Preventing CV events before they occur in pts with
established but asymptotic atherosclerosis to what
stage of prevention for ASCVD?
Secondary prevention
9. What are strategies of Secondary prevention? Screening of individuals at risk,