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cardiovascular disease (CVD),1 a cate-gory of diseases that includes high blood pressure, coronary heart disease (CHD), heart failure, and stroke. The high prev-alence, coupled with high costs that are associated with CVD, are factors that con-tribute to the current burden of CVD in the United States. CVD is progressive in nature, and many diagnosed individu-als will present with symptoms or a clus-tering of risk factors. However, CVD is largely preventable, and evidence-based research strongly supports the use of aggressive risk factor reduction, which includes the adoption and maintenanc