The guidelines, which can be carried and used by any health care worker, aim to save lives by prescribing the most appropriate treatment and are available in six languages.
Concretely, the book provides evidence-based guidance on how to reduce the incidence of first and recurrent clinical events due to coronary heart disease (CHD), cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) and peripheral vascular disease in two categories: primary prevention [1] and secondary prevention [2].
As WHO shows, this is the first cardiovascular disease risk-prediction system that can be used worldwide and is designed to be used by people everywhere, including in low-resource settings.
These guidelines will be distributed to health workers in the form of pocket guides that have been produced for each of the WHO regions as risk profiles are different for different parts of the world).
For further information:
WHO Pocket Guidelines for Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Risk report (English version)
WHO Questions and answers on Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
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