This issue will spotlight key current hot issues and topics in preventive cardiology, including the comparison of European and US guidelines for cholesterol management progress towards implementing World Health Organization priorities in CVD prevention, the latest results from the EUROASPIRE surveys, cardioprotective effects of the Mediterranean diet, nutraceuticals, and PCSK9 monoclonal antibody therapy in CVD prevention.A principal goal of this issue is to give the reader a perspective of key areas of current interest in preventive cardiology as well as an international perspective of work being done in certain countries and regions.
Guest Editor: Nathan Wong, PhD (University of California, Irvine, California, USA)
Guest Editor: Ian Graham, PhD, FCAHS (Adelaide Health Foundation, Tallaght Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland)
Meet the Professor
Focused issue on Advances in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: interview with Prof. Nathan D. Wong and Prof. Ian Graham
Silvia L. Zhou
Review Article
Current guidelines on prevention with a focus on dyslipidemias
Ian M. Graham, Alberico L. Catapano, Nathan D. Wong
Advances in dyslipidemia management for prevention of atherosclerosis: PCSK9 monoclonal antibody therapy and beyond
Nathan D. Wong, Paul D. Rosenblit, Rosenblit Greenfield
The role of nutraceuticals in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
Bozena Sosnowska, Peter Penson, Maciej Banach
Perspective
Global progress in prevention of cardiovascular disease
Shanthi Mendis
Original Article
Mediterranean lifestyle and cardiovascular diseaseprevention
Ekavi N. Georgousopoulou, Duane D. Mellor, Nenad Naumovski, Evangelos Polychronopoulos, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Suzanne Piscopo, Giuseppe Valacchi, Foteini Anastasiou, Akis Zeimbekis, Vassiliki Bountziouka, Efthimios Gotsis, George Metallinos, Dimitra Tyrovola, Alexandra Foscolou, Josep-Antoni Tur, Antonia-Leda Matalas, Christos Lionis, Labros Sidossis, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, the MEDIS study group
Mini-Review
Governmental efforts for cardiovascular disease prevention efforts in the Russian Federation
Nana Pogosova, Olga Sokolova
Brief Report
The EUROASPIRE surveys: lessons learned in cardiovascular disease prevention
Korneila Kotseva, on behalf of the EUROASPIRE Investigators
Arts and Medicine
The landscape of congenital heart disease
Giovanni Biglino
Disclosure:
The supplement “Advances in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention” was commissioned by the editorial office, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy without any sponsorship or funding. Nathan Wong and Ian Graham served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the supplement.