Welcome to Week 4
Welcome to the fourth and final week of ‘Heart Health: A Beginner’s Guide to Cardiovascular Disease’. This week we will be looking at risk factors and prevention, before rounding up what you have learnt this week with a final quiz.
We’ll explore two different types of risk factors throughout the week:
- Risk factors that we can change, also known as modifiable risk factors, such as diet
- Risk factors that we can’t change, also known as non-modifiable risk factors. These include age and gender
Learning objectives
By the end of this week you should be able to understand or be aware of:
- The links between various non-modifiable or modifiable risk factors and cardiovascular disease
- How lifestyle choices can be made to try and reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease
- Computer programmes that can help calculate your risk of cardiovascular disease, and the reasoning behind the questions on the QRisk Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator
Your Mentors
The mentors will be on hand to help support the discussions and answer your queries between 21 September – 18 October.
Heart Health: A Beginner's Guide to Cardiovascular Disease
Heart Health: A Beginner's Guide to Cardiovascular Disease
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