Whether you’ve been a long-time registrant of lipidhealth.org or you’re a new visitor, you’re aware of the vast array of valuable content for the practicing clinician that can be found throughout our site. The National Lipid Education Council® (NLEC®) has been providing data-driven, authoritative educational information and activities for more than 11 years. Our content has continually been guided by world-renowned experts in the fields of cardiovascular disease and its comorbidities. In fact, since the NLEC’s inception, its Education Council and Faculty has included many of the country’s most respected clinicians, researchers, and educators.
Today we’re proud to announce that the NLEC is changing its name to more accurately reflect the expanded content we’ve been covering over the past few years. The NLEC’s educational material has always been based on the most current clinical-trial data and guidelines pertaining to the prevention, treatment, and management of cardiovascular disease—especially in terms of controlling lipid levels. However, our focus has evolved over the past few years to encompass a more global view of that field, with an emphasis on global risk reduction. Much of the NLEC’s material goes beyond lipid lowering and into the broader aspects of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Thus, besides dyslipidemia, NLEC content includes hypertension, type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, and peripheral artery disease—as well as the interrelationships of these comorbidities.
To better represent our expanded content, the new name of the established and respected NLEC educational initiative is the Committee on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases™ (CCMD™). The lipidhealth.org website will now be called CCMDweb.org (although users will still be able to access it through the www.lipidhealth.org URL in addition to www.CCMDweb.org). Lastly, the long-running quarterly newsletter, LipidManagement™, will become CMDManagement™.
While the names of the initiative, website, and newsletter will be different, rest assured that the educational content offered will continue to be first-rate. The CCMD Education Council and Faculty will include the same preeminent thought leaders, assuring a consistent and expertly led curriculum. In addition, both CCMDweb.org and CMDManagement™will continue their award-winning ways, offering challenging educational activities and useful, to-the-point information—among other exciting features—for the practicing clinician.
We hope you continue to find our content helpful to your practice. We look forward to offering you even more educational resources aimed at preventing, treating, and managing your patients’ global risk.
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Professional Postgraduate Services® (PPS®),
sponsor of the CCMD educational initiative