Authors: Frank L J Visseren, François Mach, Yvo M Smulders, David Carballo, Konstantinos C Koskinas, Maria Bäck, Athanase Benetos, Alessandro Biffi, José-Manuel Boavida, Davide Capodanno, Bernard Cosyns, Carolyn Crawford, Constantinos H Davos, Ileana Desormais, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Oscar H Franco, Sigrun Halvorsen, F D Richard Hobbs, Monika Hollander, Ewa A Jankowska, Matthias Michal, Simona Sacco, Naveed Sattar, Lale Tokgozoglu, Serena Tonstad, Konstantinos P Tsioufis, Ineke van Dis, Isabelle C van Gelder, Christoph Wanner, Bryan Williams, Guy De Backer, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Anne Hege Aamodt, Magdy Abdelhamid, Victor Aboyans, Christian Albus, Riccardo Asteggiano, Magnus Bäck, Michael A Borger, Carlos Brotons, Jelena Čelutkienė, Renata Cifkova, Maja Cikes, Francesco Cosentino, Nikolaos Dagres, Tine De Backer, Dirk De Bacquer, Victoria Delgado, Hester Den Ruijter, Paul Dendale, Heinz Drexel, Volkmar Falk, Laurent Fauchier, Brian A Ference, Jean Ferrières, Marc Ferrini, Miles Fisher, Danilo Fliser, Zlatko Fras, Dan Gaita, Simona Giampaoli, Stephan Gielen, Ian Graham, Catriona Jennings, Torben Jorgensen, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Maryam Kavousi, Wolfgang Koenig, Aleksandra Konradi, Dipak Kotecha, Ulf Landmesser, Madalena Lettino, Basil S Lewis, Aleš Linhart, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Konstantinos Makrilakis, Giuseppe Mancia, Pedro Marques-Vidal, John William McEvoy, Paul McGreavy, Bela Merkely, Lis Neubeck, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Joep Perk, Steffen E Petersen, Anna Sonia Petronio, Massimo Piepoli, Nana Goar Pogosova, Eva Irene Bossano Prescott, Kausik K Ray, Zeljko Reiner, Dimitrios J Richter, Lars Rydén, Evgeny Shlyakhto, Marta Sitges, Miguel Sousa-Uva, Isabella Sudano, Monica Tiberi, Rhian M Touyz, Andrea Ungar, W M Monique Verschuren, Olov Wiklund, David Wood, Jose Luis Zamorano, Yvo M Smulders, David Carballo, Konstantinos C Koskinas, Maria Bäck, Athanase Benetos, Alessandro Biffi, José-Manuel Boavida, Davide Capodanno, Bernard Cosyns, Carolyn A Crawford, Constantinos H Davos, Ileana Desormais, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Oscar H Franco Duran, Sigrun Halvorsen, F D Richard Hobbs, Monika Hollander, Ewa A Jankowska, Matthias Michal, Simona Sacco, Naveed Sattar, Lale Tokgozoglu, Serena Tonstad, Konstantinos P Tsioufis, Ineke van Dis, Isabelle C van Gelder, Christoph Wanner, Bryan Williams
Summary: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease (ASCVD) incidence and mortality rates are declining in many countries in Europe, but it is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Over the past few decades, major ASCVD risk factors have been identified. The most important way to prevent ASCVD is to promote a healthy lifestyle throughout life, especially not smoking. Effective and safe risk factor treatments have been developed, and most drugs are now generic and available at low costs. Nevertheless, the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyle is still high, and ASCVD risk factors are often poorly treated, even in patients considered to be at high (residual) CVD risk. Prevention of CV events by reducing CVD risk is the topic of these guidelines.
Source: European Heart Journal, 2021