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Welcome to the European Society of Cardiology. Our mission: to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe
 

Preventive Cardiology

European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation

Our mission: To promote excellence in research, practice, education and policy in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation in Europe
Preventive Cardiology: What's hot at the ESC Congress 2010

Stay up to date on your field of Interest. Access all resources from the congress based on Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation.

 

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Cardiac prevention or rehabilitation specialists, the ESC Congress has got something for you!

The European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR) contributes to the ESC Congress 2010 with more than 20 scientific sessions, a European Forum on CVD Prevention, a session presenting the new scientific advances, highlights from EuroPRevent 2010, live demos of HeartScore, and more! HeartScore

Check out the HeartScore demo times here 

EuroPRevent 2011: From Knowledge to Practice

The 2011 edition of EuroPRevent promises to be more exciting than ever before. The main topics to be covered are:

  • Global challenges in Prevention
  • Sports cardiology
  • New strategies & developments
  • Late-breaking achievements & advances

EuroPRevent 2011 - you can't afford to miss it!

 

ESC to launch heart-friendly cook book

This very first European Cook Book will contain a unique collection of mouth-watering and culturally diverse recipes provided by ESC National and Affiliated Societies.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to European Heart for Children. The European Cook Book makes a great gift and it's for a good cause.

Join us on Facebook to share your heart healthy recipes or tips for healthy eating!

Slides from the first Master Classes in Preventive Cardiology on Diabetes
Management of diabetes in patients with cardiovascular disease

Organised with the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR), this new course presented a practical approach to the implementation of the joint ESC/EASD Guidelines on Diabetes, Prediabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.

European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Discover the presentation slides!

 

ESC supports traffic light food labelling vote
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and its branch, the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR), joined forces with 12 other European Health and consumer communities to urge MEPs to vote in favour of a traffic light system for food labelling...
Mission: To promote the essential knowledge of population prevention science among cardiologists, other clinicians, health care professionals and scientists, to stress their role in the community context and to improve their understanding of the importance of the epidemiology and primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
 
 
This section fits well within the Association as an extension of cardiac rehabilitation. A network already exists and sports cardiology is recognized as a sub-speciality. It is connected with primary and secondary prevention.
 
 
Mission: to promote and facilitate high-quality research and education related to exercise, basic and translational science in the fields of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation and sports cardiology, bringing together scientists from a broad range of disciplines.
 
 
Cardiac Rehabilitation is a secondary prevention programme, with exercise as the cornerstone of a comprehensive intervention which includes an educational programme, risk factors control and the patient’s voluntarily adoption of a healthy lifestyle to be kept for lifetime.
HeartScore: cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment and management
HeartScore: cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment and management
The interactive tool for predicting and managing the risk of heart attack and stroke in Europe. Updated according to the latest European Guidelines on CVD Prevention, HeartScore now includes relative risk for younger patients, in addition to patient data history and progress monitoring.