PREVENTIVE Cardiology

The Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program offers comprehensive preventive care from a multidisciplinary team of nationally recognized experts in cardiovascular disease prevention. The team includes cardiologists, lipidologists and hypertension specialists who work closely with nutritionists and exercise physiologists.

Preventive cardiology specialists focus on individualized risk stratification and applying evidence-based treatment strategies to prevent first and recurrent coronary and other vascular diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure.

We use genetic and advanced lipid testing along with cardiovascular imaging to provide personalized risk evaluation to our patients, and we are regional experts in diagnosing and treating genetic lipid disorders such as familial hypercholesterolemia, high triglycerides, lipoprotein(a), and abnormal HDL cholesterol levels.

The core of our lipid program is built around coupling lifestyle management with the latest breakthrough therapies. This includes providing individualized lifestyle counseling with ideal medical therapies, such as the twice-yearly, LDL-lowering “cholesterol vaccine” inclisiran, and other novel therapeutics, such as lipid apheresis, for rare genetic disorders. All referred patients see a nutritionist prior to the first visit with a lipid specialist to begin dietary modifications.

Lifestyle changes implemented in our virtual MetFit program help patients reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease, prevent or delay onset of diabetes and chronic liver disease, and reduce the consequences of obesity.

The Frankel CVC is the only Comprehensive Center of Excellence for Hypertension in the state of Michigan, and among only 20 in the nation. Our center offers expert diagnosis and control of both common and rare forms of hypertension, including resistant and refractory hypertension.

Our center is a nationally recognized site of expertise and a future site of a pivotal clinical trial at the forefront of preventive cardiology.