Connecting extension, teaching and research through a broad academic project

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death worldwide and obesity as well as type 2 diabetes mellitus are emerging as a global epidemic. Prevention is the basis for addressing cardiovascular disease to reverse this grim scenario, and raising awareness through information can increase the adherence of the general population to changes in lifestyle habits that are fundamental in this context. The information obtained in a basic care, such as a compact and objective anamnesis, blood pressure measurement, and capillary glycemia evaluation, as a parameter for individualized orientations, associated to educational lectures with accessible language, can help to break the barrier between scientific knowledge and the population. The full involvement of health academics in this knowledge transmission process, under the coordination of a professor and researcher, allows the full connection between research, teaching, and extension. Under these foundations, the extension project was created under the title: Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases and CHAPTER 71 Connecting extension, teaching and research through a broad academic project Relevant studies focused on health sciences - Connecting extension, teaching and research through a broad academic project 761 type 2 diabetes with the objective of taking scientific knowledge to the population in an appropriate language, having the health academic as one of the main vehicles.