Learn the 10 markers that actually predict cardiovascular events.
Master Class Starts
Master Class Starts
July 18, 2026
Stop treating cholesterol. Start preventing heart attacks.
Randy Vawdry, NP-C
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Your patients report normal cholesterol yet suffer heart attacks. What's missing in office exams.
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Coronary artery calcium predicts events ten times better than lipid panels. Yet most clinicians never order it.
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Brain MRI findings that demand aggressive blood pressure intervention.
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Why dental assessment is now essential cardiovascular screening.
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How to treat dysautonomia from past head injury that drives hypertension and exercise intolerance.
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CLASS OVERVIEW
Cardiovascular prevention demands a system, not a statin.
This course distills 15 clinical modules into a comprehensive prevention strategy that addresses the actual drivers of cardiovascular disease—not just LDL numbers.
You'll learn how to screen for silent neurological damage from hypertension, identify clotting risks before they become events, optimize hormone status for cardioprotection, and use advanced markers like coronary artery calcium scoring to predict risk ten times better than traditional lipid panels.
You'll learn how to screen for silent neurological damage from hypertension, identify clotting risks before they become events, optimize hormone status for cardioprotection, and use advanced markers like coronary artery calcium scoring to predict risk ten times better than traditional lipid panels.
Four key learnings:
- Blood pressure management prevents brain microinfarcts that statins cannot stop.
- Homocysteine, uric acid, and inflammation matter independently of cholesterol.
- Dental health, sleep apnea, and dysautonomia are non-negotiable cardiovascular risk factors.
- Lifestyle interventions reduce biomarkers more effectively than many drugs.
Learn evidence-based protocols from cardiology nurse practitioner Randy Vawdrey, NP-C, that combine conventional and integrative strategies proven to reduce all-cause cardiovascular mortality.
Conventional cardiology treatment gaps cost lives.
Most practitioners complete their clinical training without learning how to screen for coronary artery calcium, interpret white matter disease on brain MRI as hypertensive injury, or recognize when poor dental health is driving systemic inflammation high enough to trigger cardiac events.
Patients arrive with normal cholesterol yet progress toward myocardial infarction. Sleep apnea goes undetected despite creating severe cardiovascular stress. Dysautonomia from concussion drives hypertension that medications alone cannot resolve.
The consequence? Preventable cardiovascular events occur because the screening, assessment, and risk stratification protocols taught in medical school are incomplete.
You cannot prevent disease you do not detect. The cost of skipping preventive cardiology training is not just patient outcomes—it is medicolegal exposure, practice reputation, and the cognitive burden of managing preventable crises that could have been intercepted two years earlier.
Patients arrive with normal cholesterol yet progress toward myocardial infarction. Sleep apnea goes undetected despite creating severe cardiovascular stress. Dysautonomia from concussion drives hypertension that medications alone cannot resolve.
The consequence? Preventable cardiovascular events occur because the screening, assessment, and risk stratification protocols taught in medical school are incomplete.
You cannot prevent disease you do not detect. The cost of skipping preventive cardiology training is not just patient outcomes—it is medicolegal exposure, practice reputation, and the cognitive burden of managing preventable crises that could have been intercepted two years earlier.
Did You Know...
Did You Know...
Coronary artery calcium scoring predicts heart attack risk six times higher than cholesterol levels alone.
31 percent of Americans die from a heart attack, with 50 percent experiencing it as their first cardiovascular symptom.
Patients experience silent microstrokes from uncontrolled blood pressure that are visible on brain MRI.
Periodontal disease has been identified in atherosclerotic plaques within coronary arteries.
Post-concussion dysautonomia drives hypertension and exercise intolerance that standard vital signs cannot detect.
Low DHEA-S predicts ischemic heart disease independently of age, weight, diabetes, smoking, cholesterol, and physical activity levels.
What does cardiovascular prevention actually require?
Randy Vawdrey, NP-C, has been asking this question in clinical practice for years.
This course distills the answer into six sequential modules that move beyond cholesterol obsession toward comprehensive risk reduction. You'll learn how to:
This course distills the answer into six sequential modules that move beyond cholesterol obsession toward comprehensive risk reduction. You'll learn how to:
- Interpret advanced lipid markers like ApoB and lipoprotein(a)
- Screen every patient for sleep apnea using a single physical exam finding
- Recognize dental pathology that drives systemic inflammation
- Assess dysautonomia as an independent cardiovascular risk factor
- Optimize hormone status for cardioprotection
- Use CAC scoring to measure prevention progress objectively, and more.
The modules integrate conventional and functional medicine approaches—combining blood pressure targets, pharmaceutical options, and nutraceutical protocols into decision trees you can implement in your practice today.
Evidence-based, clinically practical, designed for practitioners who want to prevent cardiac events rather than manage them after the fact.
COURSE FEATURES
What you'll gain.
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Beyond Standard Blood Pressure Management
Identify and manage patients experiencing silent brain microinfarcts from chronic hypertension.
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Advanced Lipid Interpretation
Move beyond LDL obsession to assess and stratify true atherosclerotic risk versus low-risk cholesterol patterns.
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Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring as Your Primary Risk Marker
Implement CAC testing in your preventive cardiology baseline, interpret Agatston scores and risk percentiles, and track progression metrics.
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Dental Assessment as Cardiovascular Screening
Identify dental history risks that correlate with atherosclerotic plaque formation.
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Sleep Apnea Detection Without Sleep Lab Referrals
Recognize findings that predict obstructive sleep apnea, enabling home oximetry screening.
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Dysautonomia Recognition and Intervention
Assess post-concussion cerebrovascular dysfunction as a driver of hypertension and exercise intolerance.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Randy Vawdry, NP-C
Since his graduation in 1998 from BYU in Nursing, Randy’s career has blossomed into a focus on the identification and treatment of neuroinflammatory disorders. This includes treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI), lingering symptoms from concussions, integrative treatments of mental health disorders, COVID long-hauler’s syndrome, and the prevention and treatment of dementia.
He has been the Program Director for Portneuf Valley Hospital’s Gerontological Psychiatric Hospital. He has completed an advanced pharmaceutical certification at McLean Hospital (Psychiatric Teaching Hospital for Harvard Medical School). He served as the Director of the Psychotropic Drug Review at the Idaho State Veterans’ Home, CEO/NP-C at Physicians Immediate Care and Physicians Optimal Health (2005 – present), and Medical Director of A Mind For All Seasons (2017 – present).
Randy has written over 1000 treatment plans addressing various forms of brain fog and neurodegenerative disorders.
COURSE CONTENT
Course Session Information
Course Session Information
Learn to prevent cardiovascular disease through systemic risk assessment, advanced marker interpretation, and integrative lifestyle protocols. Designed for nurse practitioners, physicians, and functional medicine practitioners managing cardiovascular risk in ambulatory settings.
SESSION 1
Hypertension, Brain Health & Vascular Injury
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Identify white matter hyperintensities and lacunar infarcts on MRI as markers of hypertensive damage.
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Apply proper office BP protocols and 24-hour ambulatory monitoring to rule out white coat syndrome.
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Combine antihypertensive medications with appropriate nutraceuticals, based on patient response.
SESSION 2
Cholesterol, Lipids & Insulin Resistance
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Use triglyceride-to-HDL ratio and fasting insulin as lifestyle-modifiable markers of cardiovascular risk.
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Choose water-soluble statins (pravastatin, rosuvastatin) over fat-soluble options to reduce cognitive side effects.
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Distinguish primary prevention through lifestyle from secondary prevention requiring aggressive lipid management.
SESSION 3
Inflammation, Infection & Hidden Risk Factors
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Screen for periodontal disease that drives systemic inflammation and elevates cardiovascular risk.
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Identify obstructive sleep apnea through patient signs and home-based screening.
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Recognize post-concussion dysautonomia as a driver of BP dysregulation and exercise intolerance.
SESSION 4
Advanced Markers & Prognostic Testing
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Interpret various lab markers as independent cardiovascular risk factors.
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Use coronary artery calcium scoring as a superior predictor over traditional lipid-based calculators.
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Match supplementation to specific marker patterns.
SESSION 5
Hormones, Lifestyle & Integrative Prevention
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Learn which hormones to optimize as cardioprotective interventions.
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Apply circadian and blood sugar regulation to improve metabolic health.
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Address dental pathology with cone beam CT, treat sleep apnea, and optimize nutrition as foundations.
SESSION 6
Integrating Prevention Into Clinical Practice
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Sequence interventions across visits based on individual marker patterns and genetic risk.
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Use calcium scores and written roadmaps to build patient confidence in lifestyle changes.
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Connect cardiovascular, cognitive, and metabolic health to frame prevention as comprehensive care.
What's Included in the Course
What's Included in the Course
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16 comprehensive video modules with evidence-based clinical protocols and decision trees.
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Downloadable assessment tools, including patient screening questionnaires for sleep apnea, dysautonomia, and dental risk factors.
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Lab interpretation guides for coronary artery calcium scoring, homocysteine, uric acid, lipid particle counts, and inflammation markers.
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Supplementation protocols with dosing recommendations organized by marker elevation patterns and patient characteristics.
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Patient education handouts and case studies demonstrating protocol modification based on lab results, genetic factors, and individual patient response patterns.
Online course available beginning:
July 18, 2026
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Stop ordering cholesterol-only panels and start measuring the ten markers that actually predict cardiovascular events.
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Implement coronary artery calcium screening in your practice within weeks, enabling objective prevention tracking that your patients can understand.
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Assess for sleep apnea during routine exams using physical findings, eliminating unnecessary sleep lab referrals and accelerating diagnosis.
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Differentiate primary from secondary cardiovascular prevention, preventing inappropriate statin intensity in patients who need lifestyle change more than pharmaceuticals.
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Build a prevention roadmap your patients will follow because they see measurable progress on CAC scores and inflammatory markers rather than abstract risk discussions.
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