Expert Interviews

Chiadi Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS, offers 3 thoughts for primary care on incorporating CKM syndrome screening into daily clinical practice.

An obesity specialist discusses the importance of using a weight-first approach when educating patients about obesity's role in the development and worsening of hypertension.

According to physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Saloni Sharma, MD, treatment for neuropathic pain draws on PM&R's many strengths.

"Primary care physicians... really are like the quarterbacks" for initiating multidisciplinary care for CKM syndrome, says Dr Chiadi Ndumele.

Patients with obesity and hypertension need to be aggressively treated in order to decrease their risk of cardiovascular complications, says Dr Jonathan Parker, President of the Alabama Obesity Society.

Managing cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome on a population-wide basis requires that social determinants of health be treated like any other risk factor, according to Ndumele.

Dr Chiadi Ndumele explains the need for the more comprehensive and also nuanced qualitative approach to estimating long-term CVD risk.

Chiadi Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS, of Johns Hopkins University, details features of the new 4-stage construct that guides CKM diagnosis and promotes early disease intervention.

Ndumele chairs the American Heart Association committee that characterized the syndrome and wrote the statement of evidence for its assessment and management.

Which hypertension treatment options should be used as first-line therapy in patients with obesity? A clinician's answer and explanation, here.