Press Releases from European Society of Cardiology (5 total)
Diabetics must make diet and lifestyle choices to lower the risk of cardiovascul …
Sophia Antipolis, 10 November 2010: Diabetics can face a five times increase in the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) than non-diabetics. This leads to a seven to ten year reduction in life expectancy and a higher probability of suffering a fatal heart attack. These sad statistics have prompted the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to mark World Diabetes Day on 14 November 2010 by emphasising the simple…
ESC comments on study into use of walking speed as predictor of cardiac surgery …
Sophia Antipolis, France, 1 November 2010: In a paper published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), research is presented that suggests that gait speed in elderly patients – how fast or slowly they walk – can indicate frailty.
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) welcomes the new insight provided by a study into measuring frailty in elderly patients prior to cardiac surgery. In a paper…
Acute Cardiac Care 2010: Improving survival rate in patients with an acute coron …
Sophia Antipolis, 18 October 2010: Today in most countries of the world almost 50 per cent of patients in hospital for a cardiac condition began their treatment as emergency cases: chest pain at home... a cardiac arrest in the street. Thus, according to Dr Peter Clemmensen, local chairman of this year's Acute Cardiac Care congress which opens in Copenhagen on 16 October, of the 22 million hospital admissions in Europe…
New President for the European Society of Cardiology
Sophia Antipolis, 22 September 2010 : The European Society of Cardiology is delighted to welcome Professor Michel Komajda as its new President. He formally took over the position at the society’s General Assembly, held during the annual ESC Congress in Stockholm on 1 September 2010. An eminent, successful and widely published cardiologist, Michel Komajda is currently head of the Cardiovascular Medical and Surgical Departments at the Pitié Salpetrière Hospital in…
Obesity and overweight increasing throughout Europe, all ages
Overweight and overt obesity are increasing in both sexes and at all ages in nearly all European countries, as the WHO-MONICA study and other WHO recent estimates have shown. The problem especially affects women and children of the Mediterranean and of Central and Eastern Europe.
Reasons for this growing problem are the steady increase of total caloric intake over the last decades and the absence of sufficient daily…
