Management of brain-heart multimorbidity: a clinical practice guideline

Jodi D Edwards1, Zhe Li2, Philip McFarlane2

  • 1University of Ottawa Heart Institute (Edwards, Li, Vaillancourt, K.B. Lewis, Stacey, Liu); School of Epidemiology and Public Health (Edwards, Pakhalé, Roumeliotis, Gravel, M. Lewis, Mehta, Liu), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Medicine (McFarlane, Gilbert, Selby, Tu, Poon, Udell, Dhukai, Pasricha, Tobe), Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Gilbert, MacIntosh, Swartz, Poon, Jain, Pham, Dhukai, Hua-Stewart, Tobe), Toronto, Ont.; LMC Diabetes & Endocrinology (Bajaj), Brampton, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Bittman, Virani), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Western University (Feldman); Department of Medicine (Dresser), Western University, London, Ont.; Humber River Hospital (Terenzi), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Gabor), Concordia General Hospital, Winnipeg, Man.; Department of Cardiology (Gabor), Selkirk Regional Health Centre, Selkirk, Man.; Department of Medicine (Pearson), Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta, Calgary, Alta.; Faculty of Health Sciences (Wharton), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Faculty of Education (Warburton), Indigenous Health & Physical Activity Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Psychiatry (Styra, Baker, Hawkins), University of Toronto; Cardiovascular Division (Stone, Udell), Women's College Hospital; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Jain, Habert), Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; OCAD University (Jones), Toronto, Ont.; School of Architecture, Art and Design (Jones), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico; Calgary Stroke Program, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences (Ganesh, Rabi, Campbell, Hill), Radiology and Community Health Sciences (Ganesh), the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Ganesh, Rabi, Campbell, Hill), Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute (Sandhu), O'Brien Institute for Public Health (Ganesh), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Vancouver General Hospital (Andrade), Vancouver, BC; family physician (Stern), Oakville, Ont.; Department of Medicine and Research Centre (Rivard), Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Que.; Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (Udell), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Gabor), Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology (Bacon), Concordia University, Montréal, Que.; Jewish General Hospital (Trudeau), McGill University, Montréal, Que.; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Keshavjee), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Cheng), McGill University, Montréal, Que.; School of Nursing (K.B. Lewis), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (Maar, Tobe), Sudbury, Ont.; Centre for Implementation Research (Stacey), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Public Health and Implementation Science (Oldenburg), La Trobe University and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia; School of Nursing (Sherifali, Racey), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Gravel), and Data Literacy Research Institute (Gravel), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Health Informatics (Haider), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; MarcLind Health Systems and Engagement Consulting (Lindsay), Toronto, Ont. jedwards@ottawaheart.ca.

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