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Preventive Medicine is the area of medicine that is primarily concerned with disease prevention. This differs from traditional medicine, which tends to focus on treatment of existing diseases and/or medical and health conditions.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and Partnership for Prevention (Partnership) have joined forces to change the way Americans approach their health, from costly disease treatment to cost-effective disease prevention. The organizations have targeted heart disease, the nation's number one killer, with a number of initiatives, including the announcement of a new project designed to increase doctor-patient discussions about the role of aspirin in reducing the risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke.
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The Department of Preventive Medicine focuses on primary and secondary disease prevention, particularly in the areas of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and minority health. The department has a long track record of research in these areas, including several clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Physicians in the department see thousands of patients each year at the Rush University Hypertension Center. Typically, these patients are at high risk for cardiovascular disease or have had difficulty controlling blood pressure, and are seeking a second or third opinion. Currently, the department is involved with numerous NIH-sponsored activities. These include serving as:
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When one does something "Texas style" it usually means doing it big, and ACPM’s annual Preventive Medicine 2008 conference held in Austin, Texas last week was no exception. More than 1,200 people took part in the event, including over 350 local residents who participated in ACPM’s first ever direct-to-consumer event, Heart Healthy Texas. The more than 850 health professionals who attended the four-day scientific conference was the high water mark for the Preventive Medicine meeting series.
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The Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology is involved in applied epidemiology in the fields of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and the problems of aging, including Alzheimer's disease. One of the major research sources is the Framingham Study, organized in 1948 by a former Section head, Thomas R. Dawber, M.D. His successor, William B. Kannel, M.D., who served as chief of the Section from 1978 to 1989, has been widely recognized for his continuing work in the study, and has received many international awards for his contributions to preventive cardiology. R. Curtis Ellison, M.D., M.S., Chief of the Section since 1989, and Professor of Medicine and Public Health, focuses his research primarily on environmental and genetic factors that relate to hypertension and coronary heart disease; the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and chronic diseases; and the development, early in childhood, of dietary and physical activity habits that relate to obesity and other adult cardiovascular risk factors.
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The Department of Family and Preventive Medicine (DFPM) was established in 1973 in the state's only College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The medical school is one of the six health colleges at UAMS.
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