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Dare to Care

Dare to C.A.R.E. (DTC) is a nonprofit organization located in Annapolis, Maryland and is directed by John D. Martin, MD and Louise O. Hanson, CRNP of Cardiology Associates, PC. It began in 2000, and since then, has been attended by thousands of people, many of whom have had life-saving procedures as a result of disease detected at DTC events.

The C.A.R.E. acronym stands for:

Carotid Artery Disease (the primary source of preventable strokes)

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (the 10th leading cause of death in men)

Renal Artery Stenosis (responsible for at least 20% of patients on dialysis)

Extremity Artery Disease (a disease which has a mortality rate significantly higher than breast cancer and affects 12 million Americans)

Through the efforts of volunteers and the use of lectures, educational materials, free ultrasound testing and meetings with cardiovascular specialists, DTC brings the important message to the public that complications of cardiovascular disease can be prevented.

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