Cardiometabolic Care

Diabetes, LDL cholesterol, high blood pressure and obesity can increase your risk for heart disease. 

In cardiometabolic care, a multidisciplinary team integrates heart health, metabolic and hormone expertise. 

Our approach to cardiometabolic care

The systems of your body are deeply connected. Your heart, metabolism and hormones work together to support your health. When one system becomes unhealthy, it can affect the others. 

Common linked conditions include: 

• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• High cholesterol, including LDL cholesterol
• Obesity
• Metabolic syndrome

At UCI Health, our approach is integrative. Cardiologists, endocrinologists and clinical pharmacists work together to help prevent or manage these conditions and their potential domino effect. 

We also work closely with your referring physician. Together, we focus on improving your heart health, metabolic outcomes and long-term risk profile. 

Your care may include: 

• Personalized treatment planning
• Medication optimization Preventive care
• Cardiovascular risk assessment
• Lipid management
• Blood pressure management
• Glucose and metabolic control
• Weight-management strategies for related health concerns

When to seek care

If you have a metabolic disease, you will benefit from early evaluation to prevent progressive cardiovascular disease. Your primary care practitioner can refer you.

How to work with us 

We accept referrals from your primary care physician. 

Call 714-456-7002 for more information.

Your first visit may include a review of your medical history, current medications, risk factors, lifestyle habits and treatment goals. Your care team will then recommend next steps based on your cardiovascular and metabolic risk.

Why choose UCI Health for cardiometabolic care?

Multidisciplinary expertise 

Cardiometabolic conditions often involve the heart, metabolism, hormones and medications. 

At UCI Health, cardiologists, endocrinologists and clinical pharmacists work together. This gives you a more complete care plan for connected risk factors. 

Medication optimization 

Many people with cardiometabolic disease take several medications. 

Clinical pharmacists can help review your medications, improve safety and support better control of cholesterol, blood pressure or blood sugar. This can make treatment easier to manage. 

Prevention-focused care 

Cardiometabolic care is not only about treating illness after it happens. 

We focus on lowering future risk. Your plan may include cardiovascular risk reduction, lipid management, glucose control, weight care and screening for connected conditions. 

Whole-person support 

At UCI Health, we treat you holistically. 

Your care team considers lifestyle, stress, weight, metabolic health and heart risk. When appropriate, integrative health services may help support lasting behavior change. 

Care coordinated with your referring physician 

Your referring physician remains an important part of your care. 

The cardiometabolic program team works closely with your physician to align recommendations, improve communication and support your long-term health goals.

What is cardiometabolic care?

Cardiometabolic care focuses on the connection between heart disease, metabolism, hormones and vascular risk.

This type of care may be helpful if you have several risk factors at once, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or obesity.

Cardiometabolic care can help you:

• Understand your heart disease risk
• Manage complex lipid disorders
• Improve blood pressure control
• Improve blood sugar control
• Address obesity-related cardiovascular risk
• Prevent prediabetes from becoming diabetes
• Reduce vascular risk
• Learn lifestyle strategies that support long-term health

The goal is to treat you as a whole person, not as a collection of symptoms.

Why cardiometabolic conditions matter

Cardiometabolic conditions can build silently over time.

You may not feel symptoms from high cholesterol, high blood pressure or prediabetes. But these conditions can still increase your risk for heart attack, stroke, heart failure and other complications.

A cardiometabolic evaluation helps identify risk earlier.

With the right plan, you may be able to slow disease progression, prevent complications and improve your overall health.

Care from a multidisciplinary team

Because cardiometabolic disease affects multiple body systems, you may need more than one type of expertise.

At UCI Health, your care may involve:

• Cardiologists
• Endocrinologists
• Clinical pharmacists
• Referring physicians
• Nutrition specialists, when appropriate
• Integrative health specialists, when appropriate 

Clinical pharmacists can help review and optimize medications. Cardiologists focus on heart and vascular risk. Endocrinologists can address diabetes, metabolism and hormone-related concerns. 

This team-based model helps make your care more connected and comprehensive.

Lifestyle and integrative support

Medication can be important, but it is not the only tool.

At UCI Health, we also recognize the value of non-pharmaceutical strategies. Lifestyle changes can support cardiometabolic health, especially when they are realistic and sustainable.

Your care team may discuss:

• Exercise prescription
• Medical nutrition therapy
• Weight management
• Stress reduction
• Sleep and recovery
• Blood pressure monitoring
• Glucose control
• Vascular risk reduction

The UCI Health Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute may also offer complementary stress-reduction therapies that can support lifestyle change.