Theme 1

Vascular disease risk factor detection and management, and development of quality indicators to evaluate different models of care

  • Measuring performance in vascular disease management in primary care settings based on the Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonization of National Guidelines Endeavour
  • Vascular disease in Canada – Risk factors and quality indicators

Identifying optimal patient-centered models for the effective prevention and detection of vascular conditions

  • Deliberating on the Models of Optimal Vascular Network Delivery of  Prevention & Integrated Care in Canada (MOVnPICC)
  • Structured inventory of evidence-based models for the effective prevention and management of vascular conditions in Canada

Integrated Care Delivery

  • Pan-Canadian survey of models of care of patients with thoracic aortic disease

Theme 2

Leveraging large cohorts to identify factors associated with microvascular dysfunction

  • Cognitive Impairment Post-Oophorectomy: Assessment of Novel Markers of Vascular-Health
  • Associations of Arterial Stiffness and Load with Microvascular Coronary Artery Flow in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
  • Blood pRessure and vAscular hEalth around menopause (BRAVE)

Development of novel biomarker assays in vascular diseases

  • Circulating MicroRNAs as Functional Biomarkers of Vascular Cognitive Impairment
  • Evaluation of novel biomarkers to explain the link between prior preeclampsia and premature acute coronary syndrome in women: a GENESIS-PRAXY study
  • Cognitive Impairment Post-Oophorectomy: Assessment of Novel Markers of Vascular-Health

Development of animal models of vascular cognitive impairment

  • The facilitating role of cerebrovascular disease in cognitive failure induced by diabetes
  • Circulating MicroRNAs as Functional Biomarkers of Vascular Cognitive Impairment
  • Mechanisms of cerebral vascular pathology and potential reversal in a new animal model of age-related cognitive impairment
  • Development of an animal model of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI)