Pathophysiology and clinical management of metabolic diseases will be discussed, including obesity, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome and fatty liver disease, together with their cardiometabolic complications (insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, etc), as well as metabolic bone disease (osteoporosis, vitamin D abnormalities, etc.).
Special focus will be on:
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- Understanding of the complex pathophysiology of the metabolic disorders and their complications and how this relates to the required diagnostic evaluation and the therapeutic choices
- Aquiring the ability to assess and evaluate important and clinically relevant information from the patient’s history
- Becoming familiar with the essential/recommended diagnostic work-up and evaluation of the results
- Improving the skills of working within a multi-disciplinary setting which will combine nutritional and lifestyle interventions with pharmacotherapy and bariatric/metabolic surgery where needed for the prevention and long-term management of these disorders.
- Pharmacological options and criteria for selection
- Bariatric/Metabolic surgery (criteria for patient selection, pre- and post-operative assessment and follow-up requirements, techniques)
- Understanding the need of adjusting the required evaluation as well as the lifestyle and other therapeutic interventions, according to patient age (from childhood to elderly years).
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