BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2009 Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) will hold its fourth annual meeting October 7–10, 2009, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. “The current national debate on health care reform and health care cost has begun to focus attention on the issue of cardiometabolic risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease related to obesity, which is the greatest threat to our nation’s health. The CMHC is a unique forum of clinicians, scientists and health care providers providing state-of-the-art information on this key health issue,” said Christie Ballantyne, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Section of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and Baylor College of Medicine.
