Why the study?
Efforts to reduce cardiovascular disease have focused mainly on treatment rather than prevention, creating a need to establish preventive cardiology as a subspecialty.
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“Perhaps most importantly, a career pathway in Cardiometabolic Medicine would be at least one year shorter than the current training for preventive cardiology, which requires at least one additional year after general cardiology fellowship.”
This American College of Cardiology Council Perspective outlines the necessity of establishing preventive cardiology as a dedicated subspecialty with a defined structure for training, education, and professional certification.
Although significant progress has been made to reduce the global burden of cardiovascular disease, efforts have focused primarily on treatment of manifest disease rather than on prevention of events. An enormous opportunity exists to transition focus from intervention to providing equal attention to prevention of cardiovascular disease. The nascent specialty of "preventive cardiology" is emerging from the background of long-established services such as lipid, diabetes, hypertension, and general cardiology clinics. It is incumbent on the cardiology community to invest in cardiovascular prevention because past gains are threatened with the rising tide of obesity and diabetes. Now is the time to establish a dedicated preventive cardiology subspecialty to train the clinicians of the future. This American College of Cardiology Council Perspective aims to define the need for preventive cardiology as a unique subspecialty, broaches controversies, provides a structure for future training and education, and identifies possible paths forward to professional certification.
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Shapiro et al. (2019) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease. An American College of Cardiology Council Perspective proposes establishing preventive cardiology as a dedicated subspecialty to shift clinical focus from treatment to prevention of cardiovascular disease.
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