The First Annual Comprehensive Review of the Management of Hypertension was designed to objectively assess, strengthen, and reinforce your knowledge of the management of hypertension. Once you have completed the Self-Assessment Program in its entirety, your knowledge about the management of hypertension and the effects of management on cardiovascular disease risk reduction should be greatly enhanced.

The program is online in 2 convenient formats:

 Downloadable pdf
 Web-based interactive version
 (requires a JavaScript-enabled browser)

Target Audience
Primary Care Physicians, Cardiologists, Endocrinologists, Nephrologists, Lipidologists, Internists, and Family Practitioners.

Learning Objectives
After completing the First Annual Comprehensive Review of the Management of Hypertension you will better be able to:

 Treat complicated hypertension with multiple comorbidities.

 Implement effective combination therapy for hypertension.

 Describe the emergency management of hypertension.

 Discuss pathophysiologic mechanisms that lead to hypertension in

 patients with the cardiometabolic syndrome, particularly in patients

 with type 2 diabetes.

 Discuss current strategies for evaluating hypertension in the

 at-risk individual.

 Recognize the potential clinical interrelationships among

 hypertension, renal disease, diabetes, and increased cardiovascular risk.

 Design/implement efficient and effective outpatient treatment

 regimens targeting hypertension in patients with cardiometabolic

 syndrome and/or type 2 diabetes.

Accreditation

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The estimated time for completion of this activity is 7 hours.

Release Date: May 15, 2010.
Credit Expiration Date: May 31, 2012.

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