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CME

Recognizing and Overcoming Barriers to Optimizing RAAS Inhibitor Use

  • Authors: Javed Butler, MD, MBA, MPH; Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD; Matthew R. Weir, MD
  • CME Released: 11/23/2021
  • THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT
  • Valid for credit through: 11/23/2022, 11:59 PM EST
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Target Audience and Goal Statement

This activity is intended for cardiologists, nephrologists, and primary care physicians.

The goal of this activity is to discuss the use of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAAS) inhibitors in patients with heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), the associated risk of hyperkalemia, and how novel potassium binders may help regulate K+ levels to enable the optimal dosing of RAAS inhibitors to improve outcomes in this patient population.

Upon completion of this activity, participants will:

  • Have increased knowledge regarding the
    • Importance of optimal RAAS inhibitor use in patients with CKD and HF
    • Effects of RAAS inhibitors on serum K+ levels
    • Role of potassium binders in enabling RAAS inhibition


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Faculty

  • Javed Butler, MD, MBA, MPH

    Patrick A. Lehan Chair in Cardiovascular Research
    Professor of Medicine and Physiology
    University of Mississippi
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Javed Butler, MD, MBA, MPH, has the following relevant financial relationships: 
    Advisor or consultant for: Abbott; Adrenomed; American Regent; Amgen; Array; AstraZeneca; Bayer; Boehringer Ingelheim; Bristol Myers Squibb Company; CVRx; G3 Pharmaceutical; Impulse Dynamics; Innolife; Janssen; LivaNova; Medtronic; Merck; Novartis; Novo Nordisk; Relypsa; Roche; Vifor
    Speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: AstraZeneca; Boehringer Ingelheim; Lilly; Vifor

  • Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD

    Professor of Medicine
    University of Missouri
    Kansas City School of Medicine
    Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
    Kansas City, Missouri

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD, has the following relevant financial relationships: 
    Advisor or consultant for: Amgen; Applied Therapeutics; AstraZeneca; Bayer; Boehringer Ingelheim; Esperion; Janssen; Lilly; Merck; Novo Nordisk; Sanofi; Vifor
    Grants for clinical research from: AstraZeneca; Boehringer Ingelheim

  • Matthew R. Weir, MD

    Professor and Chief
    Division of Nephrology
    University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Baltimore, Maryland

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Matthew R. Weir, MD, has the following relevant financial relationships: 
    Advisor or consultant for: Akeiba; AstraZeneca; Bayer; Boehringer Ingelheim; Janssen; Merck; Novo Nordisk; Vifor

Editors

  • George Boutsalis, PhD

    Director, Content Development, Medscape, LLC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: George Boutsalis, PhD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

  • Fred Stange, DO

    Scientific Content Manager, Medscape, LLC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Fred Stange, DO, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

CME Reviewer

  • Leigh Schmidt, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CNE, CHCP

    Associate Director, Accreditation and Compliance, Medscape, LLC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Leigh Schmidt, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CNE, CHCP, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

None of the nonfaculty planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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CME

Recognizing and Overcoming Barriers to Optimizing RAAS Inhibitor Use

Authors: Javed Butler, MD, MBA, MPH; Mikhail N. Kosiborod, MD; Matthew R. Weir, MDFaculty and Disclosures
THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT

CME Released: 11/23/2021

Valid for credit through: 11/23/2022, 11:59 PM EST

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