Prevention

The prevention/hyperlipidemia clinic provides an integrated, family-centered approach to caring for children and adolescents at risk for developing heart and blood vessel disease.

Heart and blood vessel disease often begins in childhood and adolescence, only to become more apparent by causing heart attacks or strokes in young adulthood.

Approximately one in 500 children have familial hypercholesterolemia, the most common cause of high blood cholesterol in children. High blood pressure affects about one in 100 children.

In North Carolina alone more than 18,000 young people are at risk of early heart disease because of high blood pressure, and 3,700 are at risk of early heart disease because of high cholesterol.

If proper nutrition and exercise are not enough for the patients, the pediatric cardiologists who staff this clinic have the knowledge and expertise to use medications to control high blood pressure and cholesterol levels in pediatric patients.

Markers for High Risk

• Early onset of coronary heart disease or heart attacks in parents beginning before age 50
• Strong family history of heart disease and stroke in multiple family members
• High blood pressure
• High blood cholesterol
• Obesity and insulin resistance
• Diabetes

Lesley Stanford (Pediatric Nutritionist) and Maura Klavins, RN, help direct this pediatric service.

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Camitta, Michael G.W.
  
  • Pediatrics / Cardiology
• Li, Jennifer S.
  
  • Pediatrics / Cardiology
• Milazzo, Angelo S.
  
  • Pediatrics / Cardiology
• Miller, Stephen G.
  
  • Pediatrics / Cardiology

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Children's Cardiology of Fayetteville
  3427 Melrose Road, Fayetteville, NC 28304
• Duke Children's Consultative Services of Raleigh
  3713 Benson Dr., Suite 202, Raleigh, NC 27609
• Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center
  2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710