Comprehensive programs for secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation are essential to reduce cardiovascular mortality and disease burden.
This article presents the current relevance of preventive cardiology, substantiates the increasing importance of the prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) to reduce mortality and the burden of CVD, including in the era of widespread use of modern high-tech methods and effective drug therapy for treating CVD in clinical practice. The article also addresses effectiveness of secondary prevention of CVD and approaches to its improvement. Particular attention is paid to the high importance of introducing into practice comprehensive programs for secondary prevention of CVD and cardiac rehabilitation. The principles of organizing such programs and their most important components are presented in detail.
Pogosova et al. (Wed,) conducted a review in Cardiovascular diseases. Secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation programs was evaluated. Comprehensive programs for secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation are essential to reduce cardiovascular mortality and disease burden.