The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology

Abstract

While acknowledging that cardiovascular disease prevention efforts must be complemented by societal and community-based strategies, this handbook focuses on practical strategies that can be used in clinical settings. Concise and easily accessible, it guides readers through the patient and family pathway—from patient identification, recruitment of the patient and family, assessing lifestyle and risk factors, to managing lifestyle change, reducing risk factors, and compliance with cardioprotective drug therapies. Information on how to deliver a health promotion workshop programme and run a supervised exercise programme is also included. Packed with checklists and diagrams, such as risk estimation charts, helps health workers contribute in real and practical ways to the prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Complementing the Joint European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention and in line with recommendations from the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, it is an invaluable source of tools and skills to assist with the delivery of effective cardiovascular disease prevention.

Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on a Regional Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Service During the First Wave of COVID-19

“…The lesser forms of CVD include heart failure, heart rhythm disturbance (arrhythmias), valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, aortic aneurysms and venous thromboembolism, with 85% of deaths from CVD worldwide caused by acute coronary syndrome and cerebrovascular disease. 1,2 Although IHD is the single most common cause of death globally and its frequency continues to increase, the overall mortality trend in Europe has been steadily decreasing in the past three decades, with the largest declines in the Netherlands and the UK. 3 Acute coronary syndrome includes ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI), non-STEMI (NSTEMI) and unstable angina.…”