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Teacher Arrigo Francesco Giuseppe Cicero
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Credits 1
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SSD MED/09
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Teaching Mode Traditional lectures
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Language Italian
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Campus of Bologna
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Degree Programme Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415) -
Course Timetable from Feb 15, 2022 to Feb 18, 2022
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

Academic Year 2021/2022
Learning outcomes
To make the learner able to: 1) effectively reckognize the various determinants of the cardiovascular risk profile, discriminating primary or secondary forms, 2) evaluate the subject's risk profile in an integrated manner and apply the quantification algorithms of the same and the principles of the guidelines, 3) identify the most appropriate therapeutic strategy on the basis of the global risk profile and 4) acquire a deep theoretical / practical knowledge of the modalities of dietary-behavioral and pharmacological intervention towards the main factors of modifiable risk with particular interest for arterial hypertension and dyslipidemias.
Course contents
Integrated therapeutic management of arterial hypertension and hypercholesterolemia in the context of type 2 diabetes and heart failure.
Principles of rationalization of polypharmacy in patients at high cardiovascular risk with multiple risk factors.
Readings/Bibliography
Cicero AFG, Landolfo M, Ventura F, Borghi C. Current pharmacotherapeutic options for primary dyslipidemia in adults. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2019 Jul;20(10):1277-1288. doi: 10.1080/14656566.2019.1604687.
Bove M, Cicero AF, Veronesi M, Borghi C. An evidence-based review on urate-lowering treatments: implications for optimal treatment of chronic hyperuricemia. Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2017 Feb 8;13:23-28. doi: 10.2147/VHRM.S115080.
Teaching methods
Standard lectures
Assessment methods
Attendance of at least 75% of the course
Office hours
See the website of Arrigo Francesco Giuseppe Cicero