Heart Disease, Diabetes Care and Prevention

Cardiovascular disease and diabetes often go hand in hand. Heart disease is number one killer of men and women in the United States and the leading cause of diabetes-related disabilities and deaths.

Both diseases are highly preventable. According to research, maintaining better lifestyle habits may prevent up to 80 percent of heart disease and 90 percent of type 2 diabetes. Lifestyle changes and proper care can make a big difference if you have these two conditions, or what's known as metabolic syndrome.

A Team Approach

At UVA, you’ll get to know your care providers and get a personalized approach for treating your conditions.

Our Diabetes Cardiovascular Clinic is a special place for patients with diabetes, who are often at higher risk for heart disease and stroke. Our team includes cardiologists and diabetes specialists, as well as nurse practitioners and nurses, certified diabetes educators, nutritionists, exercise counselors and pharmacists. All in one location. All focused on managing and improving your health.

The Club Red Clinic team specializes in providing preventive heart care for women at all stages of life. We emphasize reducing heart and diabetes risk factors by empowering women with knowledge and support and encouraging heart-healthy lifestyle changes and standard medical treatment.

UVA's Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Wellness program provides lifestyle education and a medically supervised exercise program for patients who've had a heart attack or heart surgery, or who want to participate in a heart disease prevention program.

Personal Care

We’ll work with you to manage your heart disease and diabetes:

• We’ll develop an exercise prescription that helps you manage your condition.
• We’ll give you healthy eating tips.
• And we’ll help you find techniques to help with stress and coping.
  

The Latest Research

Our doctors are doing research today that will help us provide more advanced treatments in the future. We’re developing a non-invasive method for early detection of coronary artery disease in patients with Type 2 diabetes. And we’re also using some the most advanced imaging technology available to study the unique differences in how heart disease develops in women and men, and researching high blood pressure (hypertension).