ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology

Catriona Jennings is a cardiac specialist nurse and the European Research Nurse coordinator for EUROACTION and EUROASPIRE III in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Ian Graham qualified in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. He trained in the Adelaide and St. Vincent's Hospitals in Dublin, and at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England. He held the post of MRC Research Fellow and, later, Director of Research at St. Vincent's Hospital and was also Director of Research at the Irish Heart Foundation. He is past president of the Irish Heart Foundation, the Irish Hyperlipidaemia Association, and of the Dublin University Biological Association. He also founded the Irish Cardiac Surgery Register. Awards and distinctions have included a Medical Research Council Fellowship, an ISFC Cardiovascular Epidemiology Fellowship, the first Stokes Lectureship in Dublin and an EU Travelling Fellowship at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and Fellowships of the European Society of Cardiology and of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is an honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Stephan Gielen is the Deputy Director & Head of Department of the University Clinic & Clinic for Internal Medicine III in Halle (Saale), Germany. He was President of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation from 2012-2014, and is Speaker of the Working Group of Preventive Cardiology of the German Society of Cardiology, and Vice Speaker of the Working Group on Cardiac Diseases in the Elderly. After his medical education at the University of Bochum, Germany, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, he started his internship at Heidelberg University before moving to Leipzig in 1997.

Part 1. What is prevention and why do we need it?
1. Why do we need CVD prevention?
2. What is a high risk patient?
3. How to assess risk
4. Biomarkers in risk assessment
5. Imaging in risk assessment
6. Erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular risk
7. Priorities and targets

Part 2. Practical aspects of prevention
8. Behavioural strategies to support and sustain lifestyle change
9. Engaging individuals, families and carers in prevention
10. Smoking cessation
11. Diet and weight: Major lifestyle challenges
12. Helping people to become more physically active
13. Blood pressure management
14. Lipid management
15. Blood glucose management
16. Drug therapies to reduce risk: Evidence and practicalities
17. Identifying and managing psychosocial factors
18. Putting educational strategies into practice

Part 3. Setting up Preventive Cardiology Initiatives
19. The Global Care Pathway and how it works in practice
20. Examples of the initiatives in different care settings:Starting preventive and rehabilitative care in hospital
21. Examples of initiatives in different care settings:Community
22. Ensuring quality of interventions