A short history of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)

Guy De Backer; Joep Perk; David Wood; Stephan Gielen; Antonio Pelliccia; Diederick Grobbee; Paul Dendale; Hugo Saner

doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwac027

A short history of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)

Guy De Backer^*
, Joep Perk
, David Wood
, Stephan Gielen
, Antonio Pelliccia
, Diederick Grobbee
, Paul Dendale
, Hugo Saner

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The EAPC is now fit to address future challenges with a unified organization and strong multidisciplinary leadership together with the EJPC, the annual ESC Preventive Cardiology Congress, strong representation of preventive cardiology in the annual ESC Congresses, the ESC Textbook and Handbook of Preventive Cardiology, postgraduate educational activities, position papers and involvement in guidelines related to all aspects of preventive cardiology together with accreditations and a core curriculum for preventive cardiology as major assets under a common brand addressing primordial, primary, and secondary prevention of CVD.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1301-1308
Number of pages	8
Journal	European journal of preventive cardiology
Volume	29
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac027
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2022

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EAPC
History
Preventive cardiology

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