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Does the use of smartphone technologies communicating relative risk improve primary prevention of stroke and cardiovascular disease in the general population?
Does the use of smartphone technologies communicating relative risk improve primary prevention of stroke and cardiovascular disease in the general population?
A motivational population-wide strategy utilizing smartphone apps to communicate relative risk could bridge the gap between high-risk and mass prevention strategies for stroke and CVD.
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Smartphone-based population strategies merit prospective trials; leaves open their effectiveness versus high-risk approaches for global CVD reduction.
The fast increasing stroke burden across all countries of the world suggests that currently used primary stroke and cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention strategies are not sufficiently effective. In this article, we overview the gaps in, and pros and cons of, population-wide and high-risk prevention strategies. We suggest that motivating and empowering people to reduce their risk of having a stroke/CVD by using increasingly used smartphone technologies would bridge the gap in the population-wide and high-risk prevention strategies and reduce stroke/CVD burden worldwide. We emphasise that for primary stroke prevention to be effective, the focus should be shifted from high-risk prevention to prevention at any level of CVD risk, with the focus on behavioural risk factors. Such a motivational population-wide strategy could open a new page in primary prevention of not only stroke/CVD but also other non-communicable disorders worldwide.
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