This year the theme of the European Conference on Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation was a global cardiovascular health to coordinate efforts for effective reduction of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
This year the new president of EACPR for the period from 2014 to 2016 was elected. Professor Antonio Pelliccia obtained the appointment.
On the “Hypertension Hot Topics” symposium the Head of the Research Laboratory for Epidemiology of hypertension Oxana Rotar presented the results of the study of besieged Leningrad residents. The report was adopted with interest, and questions were raised in the classroom.
European Heart Network and the Dutch Heart Organization initiated the collection of signatures in support of the Company free from smoking by the method of introducing graphic images on cigarette packages. In 2014 European Society for Prevention initiated an education program in 80 schools in Amsterdam to prevent obesity in adolescents by increasing the level of knowledge about healthy diet and physical exercises.