ATP III Cholesterol Management Guidelines Tool 1.2 (Mobile)

Overview:

New guidelines issued on May 15 by the National Heart, Lung, and BloodInstitute (as the Third Report of the Expert Panel of the NationalCholesterol Education Program on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High BloodCholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III, or ATP III) recommend somesignificant changes in the approach to detection, evaluation, and treatmentof high blood cholesterol in adults. If put into practice, they coulddramatically reduce heart disease in this country. Busy practitioners who own a a Palm OS device can more quickly and easily put these new guidelines into practice with the new ATP III GuidelinesImplementation Tool, developed by the National Cholesterol Education Program(NCEP). Designed for use at the point of care, the interactive decision-making tool helps clinicians to do everything necessary for implementing the guidelines, from calculating a patients coronary heart disease risk torecommending appropriate treatment according to risk category and baseline LDL cholesterol level in the new guidelines.Because it is part of the educational activities of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (National Institutes of Health), the program is free, and may be freelydistributed without further permission. Please refer to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute as the source.

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