Invitation to the EBAC-accredited satellite symposium on ‘The Weight of Cardiovascular Risk: Addressing Obesity in Cardiac Patients’, at ESC Preventive Cardiology Congress 2024, Athens, Greece.

For more information, please visit the ESC website.

Learning Objectives

Educational Objectives

• Describe the impact of obesity as both an independent cardiovascular risk factor and a chronic, progressive disease 
• Identify patients at risk for cardiovascular events who would benefit from weight management therapies.   
• Develop comprehensive multidisciplinary weight management plans that adopt strategies for motivational interviewing and shared decision making. 

Agenda

Chair: John Deanfield, MD - London, United Kingdom

10:30 – 10:40  Obesity: A Looming Cardiovascular Threat - Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Impact - Naveed Sattar, MD, PhD – Glasgow, United Kingdom

10:40 – 10:55  Why Cardiologists Should Be Interested in Obesity and Its Treatment - John Deanfield, MD – London, United Kingdom

10:55 – 11:03  Patient-Clinician Communication about Obesity management - Martha Gulati, MD – Los Angeles, CA, USA

11:03 – 11:15  Panel discussion and Q&A - All faculty

CME Accreditation

This program is accredited by the European Board for Accreditation of Continuing Education for Health Professionals (EBAC)  for 1 hour of external CME credit(s). Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that have actually been spent in the educational activity. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and EBAC have recognized each other’s accreditation systems as substantially equivalent.

Funding

This symposium is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Novo Nordisk A/S.