"Cardiovascular diseases should be higher on the political agenda" said Tonio Borg, the EU commissioner for health.

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the EU, but it is not yet given enough importance on the political agenda, according to Tonio Borg, who has scheduled an EU summit on chronic diseases at the beginning of next year.He spoke at the launch of the Cardiovascular Health Week, an initiative by the MEP Heart Group. Read the article. Topics: Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS), Arrhythmias, Atherosclerosis, Atrial Fibrillation, Basic Science, Cardiac Tumours, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management, Cardiovascular Nursing, Cardiovascular Surgery, Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD), Clinical pharmacology, Computers in Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease, Diabetic heart disease, Diseases of the Aorta and Trauma to the Aorta and Heart, Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Genetics, Heart Failure (HF), Hypertension, Infective Endocarditis, Invasive Imaging: Cardiac Catheterisation and Angiography, Magnetic Resonance (Non-invasive imaging), Myocardial Disease, Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear, not applicable, Nuclear cardio & CT (Non-invasive imaging), Percutaneous Cardiovascular Intervention (PCI), Pericardial Disease, Peripheral Arterial Diseases, Pregnancy and Heart Disease, Primary care, Pulmonary Hypertension, Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology, Stroke, Sudden Cardiac Death and Resuscitation, Syncope, The Cardiac Consult, Thromboembolic Venous Disease, Valv...
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