European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012) The Fifth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and …

European journal of preventive cardiology, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a chronic disorder develo** insidiously
throughout life and usually progressing to an advanced stage by the time symptoms occur. It …

Global cardiovascular risk assessment in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults: systematic review of systematic reviews

DRJ Collins, AC Tompson, IJ Onakpoya, N Roberts… - BMJ open, 2017‏ - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To identify, critically appraise and summarise existing systematic reviews on the
impact of global cardiovascular risk assessment in the primary prevention of cardiovascular …

Estimating modifiable coronary heart disease risk in multiple regions of the world: the INTERHEART Modifiable Risk Score

C McGorrian, S Yusuf, S Islam, H Jung… - European heart …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Aims Summating risk factor burden is a useful approach in the assessment of cardiovascular
risk among apparently healthy individuals. We aimed to derive and validate a new score for …

Shared decision-making and patient empowerment in preventive cardiology

SK Thiruvengadam, T Ashvetiya, NJ Stone… - Current cardiology …, 2016‏ - Springer
Shared decision-making, central to evidence-based medicine and good patient care, begins
and ends with the patient. It is the process by which a clinician and a patient jointly make a …

Functions of health fatalism: fatalistic talk as face saving, uncertainty management, stress relief and sense making

B Keeley, L Wright, CM Condit - Sociology of health & illness, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Much research on fatalism assumes that fatalistic statements represent a global outlook that
conflicts with belief in the efficacy of health behaviours. Other scholars have suggested a …

What are effective strategies to communicate cardiovascular risk information to patients? A systematic review

CA Waldron, T van der Weijden, S Ludt… - Patient education and …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To compare different interventions used to communicate cardiovascular risk
and assess their impact on patient related outcomes. METHODS: A systematic search of six …

Patient inertia and the status quo bias: when an inferior option is preferred

G Suri, G Sheppes, C Schwartz… - Psychological …, 2013‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Medical noncompliance is a major public-health problem. One potential source of this
noncompliance is patient inertia. It has been hypothesized that one cause of patient inertia …

Barriers to cardiovascular disease risk scoring and primary prevention in Europe

FDR Hobbs, JW Jukema, PM Da Silva… - … Journal of Medicine, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
The prevalence and burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is high, and it remains the
leading cause of death worldwide. Unfortunately, many individuals who are at high risk for …

Primary care patients' perspectives of barriers and enablers of primary prevention and health promotion—a meta-ethnographic synthesis

P Moreno-Peral, S Conejo-Cerón, A Fernández… - PloS one, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Primary care (PC) patients have difficulties in committing to and incorporating
primary prevention and health promotion (PP&HP) activities into their long-term care. We …

The influence of patient expectations on adherence to treatment regimen after myocardial infarction

Ł Pietrzykowski, M Kasprzak, P Michalski… - Patient education and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Objective In-hospital patient education is one of the elements affecting patient adherence to
treatment regimen after myocardial infarction (MI). Its effectiveness is determined by …