Navigating Cardiovascular Complications of Obesity: Expert Insights for Primary Care

In episode 26 of the Patient Care Online Primary Viewpoints podcast, obesity medicine specialist Alina Elperin, MD, discusses preventive cardiology and obesity, including 2 cardiovascular disease risk factors to screen patients with obesity for, the top 3 cardiovascular complications seen in patients with obesity, the importance of checking a patients' current medication list, and how clinicians can start a conversation around nutrition plans with their patients.

Dr Elperin is an internist and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

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