Clinical Nutrition Insight, Volume 39, Number 6

Activity Steps

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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Summarize the main findings of the PREDIMED study and describe their clinical importance.
  2. Discuss the elements of the PREDIMED intervention that differed from the control regimen and which presumably were most re - sponsible for the observed benefits.
  3. Identify obstacles to implementing the PREDIMED diet and strategies to overcome them.
  4. Describe the effects of chelation therapy on cardiovascular outcomes in a secondary prevention trial.
  5. Summarize limitations of the study and concerns about the quality of evidence.
  6. Explain the proposed pathway through which consumption of L-carnitine from food or supplements promotes production of TMAO, a potentially atherogenic metabolite.
  7. Counsel patients and clients regarding claims that red meat consumption promotes cardiovascular disease by enhancing production of TMAO.
  8. Evaluate new evidence, based on objective biomarkers of fish intake, showing increased longevity associated with higher blood levels of omega-3 PUFAs.
  9. Discuss the implications of the evidence for recommending consumption of whole fish versus fish oil supplements.

Disclosures

Mr. Lomangino has disclosed that he is a consultant to the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation and the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

Price: $49.00

Credits:

  • CDR 1.5 CPEU
  • FCDN 1.5 CH

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), provider number LI001. Registered dietitians (RDs) will receive 1.5 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for successful completion of this program/material, CPE Level 2.

LWW is approved as a provider of continuing education for the Florida Council for Dietetics and Nutrition.

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Professions: Other Health Professional
Test Code: CNI0613
Published: June 2013
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Clinical Nutrition Insight
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Kevin Lomangino
Categories: Cardiovascular , Evidence-Based Practice , Nutrition
Specialties: Cardiology, Endocrinology
Topics: Chelation , Mediterranean Diet , Nutrition , Omega-3 , Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO)