16 results match your criteria: "European Prevention Center[Affiliation]"

Cardiomyopathies are heterogeneous and critical disorders of cardiovascular diseases. One of the most common inherited cardiomyopathies is DCM (dilated cardiomyopathy). Genetic disorders are found in approximately 50% of DCM cases.

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Background: Although cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) is well accepted in general, CR-attendance and delivery still considerably vary between the European countries. Moreover, clinical and prognostic effects of CR are not well established for a variety of cardiovascular diseases.

Methods: The guidelines address all aspects of CR including indications, contents and delivery.

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EAPC Core Curriculum for Preventive Cardiology.

Eur J Prev Cardiol

February 2022

Department of Prevention and Sports Medicine, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Georg-Brauchle-Ring 56, 80992 Munich, Germany.

Preventive cardiology encompasses the whole spectrum of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, at individual and population level, through all stages of life. This includes promotion of cardiovascular (CV) health, management of individuals at risk of developing CVD, and management of patients with established CVD, through interdisciplinary care in different settings. Preventive cardiology addresses all aspects of CV health in the context of the social determinants of health, including physical activity, exercise, sports, nutrition, weight management, smoking cessation, psychosocial factors and behavioural change, environmental, genetic and biological risk factors, and CV protective medications.

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Author Correction: Cardiovascular risk algorithms in primary care: Results from the DETECT study.

Sci Rep

March 2020

University of Heidelberg, Mannheim Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine V (Nephrology, Hypertensiology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Diabetology), Mannheim, Germany.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

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Current algorithms for assessing risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and, in particular, the reliance on low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in conditions where this measurement is discordant with apoB and LDL-particle concentrations fail to identify a sizeable part of the population at high risk for adverse cardiovascular events. This results in missed opportunities for ASCVD prevention, most notably in those with metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, and diabetes. There is substantial evidence that accumulation of ectopic fat and associated metabolic traits are markers for and pathogenic components of high-risk atherosclerosis.

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[Meaningful diagnostics: imaging].

Herz

February 2020

European Prevention Center (EPC) im Medical Center Düsseldorf (GrandArc), Luise-Rainer-Str. 6-10, 40235, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.

Imaging of subclinical atherosclerosis is an integrated component of a preventive medicine algorithm; i.e. on the basis of a cardiovascular risk stratification patients with a low and intermediate risk qualify for further imaging (cave: Bayes' theorem).

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OCT and IOP findings in a healthy worker cohort: results from a teleophthalmic study in occupational medicine.

Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol

November 2019

Interdisciplinary Center for Preventive Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.

Purpose: To avoid significant loss of vision in employees, the working population could be examined with ophthalmic methods as OCT and IOP measurement for detection of serious eye diseases. The value of "virtual eye clinics" in occupational preventive medicine has been previously shown. We used a telemedical approach to gather epidemiological information about prevalence of eye diseases such as glaucoma, ocular hypertension, hypertensive retinopathy, diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal membrane, AMD, adult vitelliform maculopathy, cystoid maculopathy, choroidal nevi, and macular drusen.

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Antares is an algorithm for pulse wave analysis (PWA) by oscillometric blood pressure (BP) monitors in order to estimate central (aortic) blood pressure (cBP). Antares aims to enable brachial cuff-based BP monitors to be type II-devices, determining absolute cBP values independently of potential peripheral BP inaccuracies. The present study is an invasive validation of the Antares algorithm in the custo screen 400.

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Cardiovascular risk algorithms in primary care: Results from the DETECT study.

Sci Rep

January 2019

University of Heidelberg, Mannheim Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine V (Nephrology, Hypertensiology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Diabetology), Mannheim, Germany.

Guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular diseases use risk scores to guide the intensity of treatment. A comparison of these scores in a German population has not been performed. We have evaluated the correlation, discrimination and calibration of ten commonly used risk equations in primary care in 4044 participants of the DETECT (Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation: Targets and Essential Data for Commitment of Treatment) study.

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[Acute coronary syndrome : Prevention].

Herz

February 2019

Abteilung 1 (Kardiologie, Diabetologie), Paracelsus-Harz-Klinik Bad Suderode, Quedlinburg, Deutschland.

For life style modifications primary and secondary prevention of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are approximately similar, even though in the postinfarction situation functional diagnostic programs have to be performed in a rehabilitative manner. All three life style pillars of fitness, nutrition and relaxation implicate prognostic significance and the efficacy is higher for secondary prevention than for primary. The pharmacotherapeutic indications for thrombocyte aggregation inhibition are connected to the presence of atherosclerosis and statin medication is already connected to cardiovascular risk factor stratification, for which scores are used.

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[Choosing wisely recommendations in cardiology].

Internist (Berl)

June 2017

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie - Herz- und Kreislaufforschung, Grafenberger Allee 100, 40237, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.

This article describes controversially discussed Choosing wisely recommendations presented by the German Cardiac Society: anticoagulation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation and "only" moderate stroke risk, on the one hand, and goal-directed low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol-lowering, on the other. Presuming an adequate regime, patients with atrial fibrillation and only moderate risk of stroke (CHADS-VASc Score of 1 in men and of 2 in women) also benefit from anticoagulation therapy, even in elderly patients. In patients with coronary heart disease, the German Cardiac Society recommends reducing LDL-cholesterol serum levels with a statin to values lower than 70 mg/dl (1.

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Atherosclerosis is a systemic, over a long period silent, but at least in many cases severe illness with fatal events which in most Europeans represent the reason of death. The primary reduction of causative factors is very efficient, but, however, is not readily enough established within dominant curative treatment. In contrary, a cost effective risk modification is possible, especially by individualized risk stratification.

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