Internal Medicine: Threats to Health: Proteinuria/Metabolic Syndrome (Audio-Digest Foundation Internal Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME). Volume 59, Issue 31)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners physicians and other healthcare professionals with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Internal Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Gastroenterology
Hematology and medical oncology
Rheumatology
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
Endocrinology
Infectious disease
Nephrology and hypertension
Cardiology
Geriatric medicine



The goals of this program are to improve the management of proteinuria and metabolic syndrome. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Evaluate patients with persistent low-grade proteinuria and identify those who may require a renal biopsy.

2: Prescribe pharmacotherapy to slow the progression of disease in a patient with diabetes mellitus (DM) who has been diagnosed with proteinuria.

3: Utilize the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) criteria for diagnosis of metabolic syndrome.

4: Advise patients with metabolic syndrome about lifestyle changes to reduce body weight and prevent the development of type 2 DM (T2DM).

5: Prescribe appropriate pharmacotherapy for reducing the risks for T2DM and cardiovascular events in patients with metabolic syndrome.