Cardiovascular Prevention

Currently, Cardiovascular Prevention (CV) strategies focus on the identification of subjects with higher risk, often already with structural organ alterationstat is no longer regressed (residual risk). The low adherence of patients to a proper lifestyle and recommended therapies  limits further the effectiveness of the current interventions, leading to a constant increase in chronic CV pathologies.

To strengthen and improve the approach to CV prevention, particularly to the primary prevention (focused on subjects who have not yet developed CV diseases), the WG dedicated to Cardiovascular Prevention, aims to develop new strategies, based on multidisciplinary interventions, aimed at the early correction of CV risk factors, and to promote an innovative and widespread health education. In these areas the most promising opportunities come from technological innovation, in particular from digital medicine tools (eHealth), including mobile devices, such as mobile phones, and their dedicated applications (mHealth), with the aim of fostering collaborative integration between patient, general practitioners and IRCCS cardiological research centers.

These objectives are pursued within the two research projects active in this field: the IMPROVE CVP study and the CV PREVITA project, whose goal is to develop an innovative primary cardiovascular prevention approach based on an eHealth/mHealth technology platform in the natural context of primary prevention, general medicine. The use of innovative digital tools within the IMPROVE CVP study and the CV PREVITAL project will diversify the interventions on an individual basis, insisting on the specific characteristics of each subject, including psychological and socio-economic.

The results of these studies will constitute the fundamental premise for the elaboration of a cardiovascular prevention plan of national interest that allows a rationalization of resources and will be applicable to a wider segment of the Italian population compared to the current regional models.

Active Projects:

• Use of mobile health and e-health technology for optimal cardiovascular prevention – the IMPROVE CVP study (PI: Gianfranco Parati – Istituto Auxologico Italiano)
• Primary cardiovascular prevention strategies in the Italian population – CV PREVITAL – (PI: Gianfranco Parati – Istituto Auxologico Italiano)

Coordinator:

Prof. Gianfranco Parati

Institute:

Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Partecipants:

CENTRO CARDIOLOGICO MONZINO Damiano Baldassarre – POLICLINICO SAN DONATO Alexis Malvazos – MULTIMEDICA Livio Luzi – FONDAZIONE CA’ GRANDA  Roberto Meazza – OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE Paolo Camici- MARIO NEGRI Carla Roncaglioni – OSPEDALE PEDIATRICO BAMBINO GESU’ Ugo Giordano – POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO Luigi Oltrona Visconti – IRCCS ISTITUTI CLINICI SCIENTIFICI MAUGERI Luca Chiovato – HUMANITAS Giuseppe Ferrante – SAN RAFFAELE PISANA Maurizio Volterrani – ISMETT IRCCS Alessandro Mattina – SDN Carlo Cavaliere – NEUROMED Giuseppe LEMBO – IRCCS OSPEDALE POLICLINICO SAN MARTINO Fabrizio Montecucco – MONDINO Alfredo Costa – ISTITUTO GIANNINA GASLINI – IRCCS POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO AGOSTINO GEMELLI Giovanna Liuzzo – IRCCS INRCA Roberto Antonicelli