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Cardiovascular risk factors management - are we doing enough?

Comprehensive review of main facts and key messages from recently published European Society of Cardiology Atlas of Cardiology 2019 as a compendium of cardiovascular disease statistics and realities across 56 ESC member countries, mainly in the Europe. The evolution of ESC cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines was explained, together with the history of EUROASPIRE I to EUROASPIRE V surveys. A comparison of the main results from EUROASPIRE IV and EUROASPIRE V surveys were presented, with conclusions about time trends in lifestyle, cardiovascular risk factors, and treatment in European patients with coronary artery disease from 21 country, where Slovenia and Croatia have been also included. There is an unmet need to reduce the gap between clinical practice and the new European Guidelines for hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes management, using guidelines recommendations, goals and target levels based on scientific evidence, together with the implementation of novel and avaible therapies and treatment options.

hypertension, dyslipidaemias, diabetes, pre-diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, prevention, guidelines

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