Pocket Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice

Publication Date: 2021
Chairperson: Frank LJ Visseren and François Mach

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Risk factors and clinical conditions
  • Cardiovascular disease risk classification
  • A stepwise approach to risk factor treatment and treatment intensification
  • Risk estimation in apparently healthy people
  • Translating cardiovascular disease risk to treatment thresholds
  • Risk estimation and risk factor treatment in patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
  • Risk estimation and risk factor treatment in persons with diabetes mellitus
  • Communication of cardiovascular disease risk
  • Risk modifiers
  • Clinical conditions
• Risk factors and interventions at the individual level
  • Treatment goals
  • Optimising Lifestyle
  • Management of dyslipidemia
  • Blood pressure
  • Diabetes
  • Antithrombotic therapy
  • Anti-inflammatory therapy
  • Cardiac rehabilitation
• Policy interventions at the population level
• Risk management of disease-specific cardiovascular disease