OBJECTIVES : 1. To understand the importance of different lipids to vascular disease risk and how genetics have helped 2. To reiterate the value and safety of statins as a first line therapy for lipid modification 3. To ...

Medical students worldwide are still taught that “hypertension” is a disease, and that if a person develops this disease, they now have a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, in countless epidemiological ...

Universities should be engines for knowledge generation. Although there are signs of change, a research culture is not widespread in Sri Lankan universities. It was in this environment that the Faculty of Medicine was ...