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EPI/BIO Seminar Series: Samuel Gidding, MD

2/15/2012 | 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Bellet 604
  • Event Type: Lecture
  • Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Speakers: Samuel Gidding, MD
  • Audiences: Current Students , General

"The New NHLBI Pediatric Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Guideline: Developing the Evidence Base"

Atherosclerosis has its origins in youth and this early vascular injury is related to established cardiovascular risk factors. Assembling evidence to determine the best approach to early CVD prevention is complex; the recently published “Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Youth” guideline attempted this process. The evidence evaluation algorithm will be presented as well as important examples of how evidence was translated into the final recommendations.

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Samuel Gidding, MD
Dr. Gidding is cardiology division head of the Nemours Cardiac Center at A. I. DuPont Hospital for Children and Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College. He has practiced pediatric preventive cardiology since 1986, publishing research on all the major risk factors in children and participating in the DISC, CARDIA, and PDAY studies. He has developed consensus statements and guidelines for NHLBI, the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, CDC and the American Diabetes Association.

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