The Ottawa Mobile Screening Program-Concept and First 18 Months of Experience with a Community-Based Outreach Cardiovascular Prevention Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a critical need to implement new strategies to combat cardiovascular (CV) disease and more specifically valvular heart disease (VHD). We hypothesize that a community-based, outreach, mobile screening program offering convenient screening for VHD using handheld cardiac ultrasound is feasible. and capable of facilitating early diagnosis and referral in a substantial proportion of patients. We aimed to present our experience and results from the first 18 months of implementation of the program.

Methods

We included individuals aged ≥ 65 years with no known CV disease, residing in Ottawa and its surrounding region (within Canada). We took the opportunity to combine CV risk factor assessment with VHD screening. Potential abnormal findings were triaged according

SUBMITTER: Kelemen-Dagg K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12572886 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature