The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center's expanded 'ABC's approach to highlight 2020 updates in cardiovascular disease prevention.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, improvement in outcomes related to cardiovascular disease is in part due to the prioritization and progress of primary and secondary prevention efforts. The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease expanded 'ABC's approach is used to highlight key findings in Preventive Cardiology from 2020 and further emphasize the importance of cardiovascular prevention. This simplified approach helps clinicians focus on the most relevant and up to date recommendations for optimizing cardiovascular disease risk through accurate risk assessment and appropriate implementation of lifestyle, behavioral and pharmacologic interventions. While 2020 not only provided practice changing updates by way of clinical guidelines and randomized controlled trials on top

SUBMITTER: Feldman DI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8315585 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature