Prevention, Epidemiology and Population Science Section

Section Nucleus

Chair, Grethe S Tell
Secretary, Oscar Franco
Chair-Elect, Eva Prescott
Past-Chair, Johan De Sutter
Past-Chair, Diego Vanuzzo

Nucleus Members
Olga Barna
Dirk De Bacquer
Pompilio Faggiano
Ian Graham
Eugenio Greco
Sandy Gupta
Uwe Nixdorff
Massimo Volpe

Consultants:
Simon Capewell
Torben Jorgensen
Susanne Logstrup
Sofia Malyutina
Pedro Marques-Vidal
Susanna Sans
Monique Verschuren
Tomasz Zdrojewski

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 prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

Objectives

• To acknowledge and promote the role of epidemiologic research on the etiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases, including the study of risk factors, their time trends and geographical distributions, with the aim of developing optimal strategies to tackle the high burden of cardiovascular diseases in Europe.
• To underline the need for representative up-to-date population data, surveys and registries,  and to stimulate the distribution of scientific evidence-based information among clinicians and other health care professionals allowing them to plan and implement appropriate preventive actions in daily practice.
• To support policy makers, governmental and non-governmental organisations to take responsibility for creating a societal context that permits accessible, affordable and sustainable preventive measures at the population level, with particular attention to lifestyle related risk factors, including smoking, unhealthy diet, alcohol, physical inactivity, and obesity.

Lifestyle & CVD Literature 

• The impact of stress on myocardial diseases
  Am J Cardiol 2010; Advance online publicationStudies show that acute myocardial infarction rates in the USA rose markedly as stock market values plunged during the recent recession. Read Erik Solberg's and Johan de Sutter's comments
• Let the barber shave your hypertension away
  Arch Intern Med 2010; Advance online publication
  Results from a US study suggest that hypertension outreach programs based in barbershops may improve blood pressure control among Black men with hypertension more than traditional management programs. Read the comment by Pedro Marques Vidal
• Modified QRISK score identifies CV risk at younger age 
  BMJ 2010; Advance online publication
  A novel lifetime risk score allows individuals with an increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease to be identified at a younger age than the conventional 10-year QRISK2 score permits.
  Read Guy de Bacquer's comment.

Congress Reports

New scientific advances in Epidemiology and Public Health J. De Sutter (2009)

What is new in Prevention & Health Policy
S. Giampaoli (2008) 

Poster Prize Winners

• EuroPRevent 2011 Prevention and Epidemiology Winner: A.M. Van Berendoncks (BE), Disturbed adiponectin AMPK system in skeletal muscle of metabolic syndrome patients
• EuroPRevent 2010 Prevention and Health Policy Winner: C Pisinger (DK), The influence of smokers socio economic status on motives to quit and reasons to relapse.
• EuroPRevent 2010 Epidemiology & Public Health Winner: J Mindell (UK), Using the Health Survey for England to monitor the effect on non-smokers and on inequalities of smokefree legislation. 
• EuroPRevent 2009 Prevention and Health Policy Winner: S Giampaoli FESC (IT), The preventive potential of body mass reduction on cardiovascular risk: data from the Italian CUORE Project.
• EuroPRevent 2009 Epidemiology & Public Health Winner: B Gigante (SE), Genetic variants at rs599389 modulate serum lipids levels and the risk of myocardial infarction in the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program.
• EuroPRevent 2008 Prevention and Health Policy Winner: L Palmieri (IT), Favorable cardiovascular risk profile and 10-year cardiovascular disease incidence in women and men: results from the CUORE Project.
  EuroPRevent 2008 Epidemiology & Public Health Winner: A Aitsi-Selmi (UK), Stable angina pectoris: comparison of trends in symptoms and diagnosed cases of angina from 1991 to 2003 with trends in MI mortality.
• EuroPRevent 2007 Prevention and Health Policy Winner: F SOFI (IT), Fish intake and LPA 93C>T polymorphism: Gene environment interaction in modulating ipoprotein (a) Concentrations
• EuroPRevent 2007 Epidemiology & Public Health Winner: M Verschuren (NL), Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Impact of implementation of a new guideline for cardiovascular risk management in the Netherlands