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Physician Referral

The consultative services offered by the NYU Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention can be easily arranged through physician referral. A request can be made for a patient to see any one of our attendings. Alternatively, we can make arrangements based on patient convenience and availability of a faculty member.

We would be happy to discuss an individual case prior to consultation to determine the best approach for each evaluation. Patients should also expect to have at least one visit with our nutritionist. It is increasingly clear that utilizing the correct diet is critical to the success of intervention designed to reduce cardiac risk, as reflected by the Adult Treatment Panel III recommendations as well as by the FDA-approved prescribing information for the major hypolipidemic agents.

We will also be utilizing the services of an experienced nurse clinician who will participate in patient follow-up and assessment of response to lifestyle modification and drug therapies.

Typically, a consultation will last sixty minutes and will take place place in our new, state-of-the-art faculty practice suite located at Skirball 9U, 530 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016. This will involve a thorough directed history and physical examination.

Based on the nature of any available blood tests or cardiac risk evaluations, additional procedures are likely to be requested. This could include more thorough and specific lipid tests to determine lipoprotein particle number and size, which are done at the laboratory that has served as the core lab for many of the large national multicenter studies conducted over the last few years (Liposcience labs in North Carolina).

After consultation with the referring physician, it may be decided to be useful to obtain other tests such as an Exercise or Pharmacologic Stress test, using Nuclear Scintigraphy or Echocardiogram imaging. Another likely test may include High Sensitivity B-Mode Carotid Ultrasound to measure Intimal Medial Thickening. The features of this test and data concerning the rationale for its use are offered through this link.