Strategies And Interventions To Improve CVD Prevention: Lessons Learned from Italy

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 00:00

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Suggested interventions to reduce CVD burden in Italy (from (High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevent 2008; 15:63-73, and from (Atherosclerosis Supplements 2009; 10: 3-21)

  1. Sustain and support health policies designed to promote or improve prevention of CVD in Italy
  2. Support and implement initiatives to quit smoking
  3. Identify training and educational strategies aimed at preventing CVD
  4. Increase awareness of the importance of medical management of total (global) CV risk
  5. Use detection of potential indicators of high CVD risk (such as family history, high BP, cholesterol levels, or other modifiable risk factors) as a
    starting point to perform a total CV risk stratification
  6. Assess the total (global) CV risk and project an estimate of CV risk over time
  7. Discuss the importance of CV risk assessment and prevention of CV benefits with patients
  8. Start diagnostic and therapeutic interventions early
  9. Promote the use of recommendations for CV prevention, which should be simple, integrated, and shared by the various scientific societies
  10. Promote the role of general practitioners
  11. Provide cultural and scientific support to multidisciplinary professional  activities of all health professionals involved in preventing CVD
  12. Identify and support initiatives by industries or public and private associations, which may have an impact on CVD prevention
  13. Develop documents for CV prevention
  14. Harmonize and sanitize the initiatives and policies in terms of CV prevention in association with the EU
  15. Identify annual or periodic objectives that are clearly specified, realistic, and achievable using criteria of verification the attained results (High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevent 2008; 15:63-73).


February 16, 2010


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