Why the study?
Patients who have survived a heart attack or stroke have a substantially higher risk of further cardiovascular events, and national policies for secondary prevention of CVD are needed to reduce this burden globally.
The WHF Roadmap provides a comprehensive, evidence-based policy framework for nations to develop customized strategies for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease to reduce global premature mortality.
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Supports integration of secondary prevention into routine care; extends prior frameworks by targeting global implementation barriers.
The concept of the WHF Roadmap was created by Professor Srinath Reddy, a former president of WHF, and through his leadership the WHF prioritised secondary prevention of CVD, hypertension detection, and treatment and tobacco control as the top three global targets with the biggest potential to reduce the burden of CVD.Patients who have already survived a heart attack or stroke are recommended as the highest priority for prevention because their absolute five-year risk of a further cardiovascular event at a population level is about 20% higher than patients without CVD and these patients with manifest disease account for up to half of all subsequent CVD events in the population [1].The first Roadmap was launched on February 13 th , 2015, at a Policy Forum on Secondary Prevention of CVD and published in Global Heart and followed by Roadmaps on Hypertension and Tobacco Control [2][3][4].
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David A. Wood (2024) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease (secondary prevention). WHF Roadmap on Secondary Prevention of CVD was evaluated. The WHF Roadmap on Secondary Prevention of CVD provides a framework to translate science into health policy, identifying barriers and proposing solutions to reduce premature cardiovascular mortality.
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