BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- With heart disease continuing to be the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S., Atherotech Inc. has recruited eight top cardiovascular experts to its medical advisory board to help guide development of a new preventive program. The company is expanding its disease management services with the goal of helping physicians reduce death and disability from heart disease.
The new advisory board members are distinguished medical doctors Eliot A. Brinton, Michael H. Davidson, Prakash C. Deedwania, Gary H. Gibbons, Peter H. Jones, Richard B. Lanman, Charles A. Reasner II, and Peter P. Toth. Among them, these medical experts hold 16 fellowships or board certifications from various respected medical societies. To review individual detailed biographies, please visit www.atherotech.com/mad.
Each board member contributes specific expertise. “Our research efforts are focused on discovering who is truly at risk for cardiovascular disease and how we can better manage this risk,” said Dr. Davidson. “The past focus only on LDL/HDL/triglycerides misses nearly half of patients at risk.”
Dr. Toth, a family practitioner at Sterling Rock Falls Clinic in Sterling, Ill., began using the advanced lipid profile for its powerful predictive factors.
An associate professor at the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Jones performs clinical trials of new lipid-modifying drugs. He is site principal investigator of the AIM HIGH trial, a NIH-funded 4-year outcomes study.
Atherotech provides physicians and cardiology practices with a single source for the VAP Cholesterol Test and more than a dozen cardiovascular and metabolic tests. Cardiometabolic testing available through Atherotech includes C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), Lp-PLA2, apoE genotype, NT-proBNP, Cystatin C, T3 and T4 when TSH is abnormal, plus gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), a recognized cardiovascular risk biomarker.
For more information on the VAP Test, visit www.thevaptest.com or call 877.901.8510.
CONTACT: Dan Snyders of Armada Medical Marketing, +1-303-623-1190, ext.
230, dan@armadamedical.com; or Scott Rezek of Atherotech Inc.,
+1-205-314-7412, srezek@atherotech.com
Web site: http://www.atherotech.com/
