Global cardiovascular disease prevention: a call to action for nursing: community-based and public health prevention initiatives.

Policy changes are necessary to promote cardiovascular disease prevention. These will involve community-based and public health initiatives for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In this article, we discuss such interventions, community-based participatory research that has been conducted in this area, and implications for capacity building in genetics research.

Global cardiovascular disease prevention: a call to action for nursing: community-based and public health prevention initiatives.

Policy changes are necessary to promote cardiovascular disease prevention. These will involve community-based and public health initiatives for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In this article, we discuss such interventions, community-based participatory research that has been conducted in this area, and implications for capacity building in genetics research.

Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy: what do we know?

Noncompaction is a rare and primary genetic cardiomyopathy affecting the left ventricle. The diagnosis is usually established by echocardiography, or, less frequently, by left ventriculography. Cardiac magnetic resonance and electrocardiography-gated multi-detector computed tomography are evolving noninvasive modalities to image cardiac structures, and have the utility to detect noncompacted myocardium.