Obesities and Cardiometabolic Diseases - Importance of Lifestyle Vital Signs

The eighth session of this series will discuss moving the focus of disease management to health promotion to address the epidemic of cardiometabolic diseases. As part, the importance of visceral adiposity and ectopic fat depots as key drivers of health risk in obesity and relevance of targeting key “lifestyle vital signs” will be reviewed. Audience Q&A follows the presentation.

Guest Speaker: Jean-Pierre Després, CQ, PhD, FAHA
Scientific Director, VITAM - Research Center for Sustainable Health
Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, CANADA

ABOUT THE SERIES
This webinar series features a different topic each month to educate and provide resources for both patients and practicing providers. University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute's Center for Integrated and Novel Approaches in Vascular-Metabolic Disease (CINEMA) is a unique cardiometabolic program focused on managing overlapping conditions of diabetes, heart and kidney disease.

More Information

• Learn more about Heart Care for Diabetes Patients.
• Meet the UH CINEMA team.