Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Guidelines for Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Risk [With CDROM] (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789241547178)

This publication provides guidance on reducing disability and premature deaths from coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease in people at high risk who have not yet experienced a cardiovascular event. People with established cardiovascular disease are at very high risk of recurrent events and are not the subject of these guidelines. They have been addressed in previous WHO guidelines. The risk prediction charts that accompany these guidelines allow treatment to be targeted according to simple predictions of absolute cardiovascular risk.

Recommendations are made for management of major cardiovascular risk factors through changes in lifestyle and prophylactic drug therapies. The guidelines provide a framework for the development of national guidance on prevention of cardiovascular disease that takes into account the particular political economic social and medical circumstances.

Author: World Health Organization
ISBN-10: 9241547170
ISBN-13: 9789241547178
Publisher: World Health Organization
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2007
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.00w x 0.30d