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© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Getting into a healthy `CV success zone': effective strategies to prevent CVD

Anita Rieder

Center for Public Health, Institute of Social Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Rooseveltplatz 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Corresponding author. E-mail address: anita.rieder@meduniwien.ac.at

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It has been estimated that more than 25% of the world's adult population had hypertension in 2000 and that this figure is expected to increase by 60% to 1.56 billion by 2025.1 The fact that hypertension is one of the biggest public health problems is well known. The WHO European Health Report 2005 points out that the burden of mortality and DALYs (Disability Adjusted Life Years) for the seven leading conditions—ischaemic heart disease, unipolar depressive disorders, cerebrovascular disease, alcohol use disorders, chronic pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and road-traffic injury can be attributed to just seven leading risk factors like tobacco, alcohol, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, overweight, low fruit and vegetable intake, and physical inactivity.2 Of these risk factors hypertension is the top-ranking risk factor in the European region in terms of attributable DALYs (12.8% of total DALYs) and continues to be the most common risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Where do the challenges lie?
 
Guidelines
Awareness
Treatment
Costs

   Where do we go from here?
 

   Value of prevention
 

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