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Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care

Guest Editors:
Gup Iloh: Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, and Rhema University, Nigeria
Csaba Móczár: Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary


BMC Primary Care has published this Collection on Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading global cause of mortality, primarily driven by ischemic heart disease and stroke. The prevalence of heart and circulatory diseases poses a significant burden on public health, particularly in countries with aging populations, where disparities in CVD incidence and outcomes are observed due to variations in behavioral and inherent risk factors, as well as societal inequalities.


New Content ItemThis collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG3: Good Health and Well-Being, and SDG10: Reducing Inequalities.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Gup Iloh: Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, and Rhema University, Nigeria

Professor Gup Iloh is a Consultant Special Grade I and Postgraduate Medical College Fellow in Family Medicine with Federal Medical Centre Umuahia, Nigeria. He is a full professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at Rhema University, Nigeria. He is the Pioneer Head of the Department of Family Medicine, FMC Umuahia and the former Director of Postgraduate Studies at the institution. His academic and professional qualifications are MBBS, MPH, MPA, MSc-PH, Fellow of Medical College of Family Medicine (FMCFM), Fellow of West African College of Physicians (FWACP), PhD-Public Health (Epidemiology and Disease Control:-Cardiovascular Health and Preventive Cardiology), Postgraduate Doctor of Medicine (MD) of National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Fellow of Society of Environmental and Public Health of Nigeria (FSEPH) and  Fellow of Society of Environmental and Public Health of West Africa (FSEPHWA). He has published extensively in national and international journals (Thomson Reuters/Web of Science, PubMed & SCOPUS/Scimago Journals) having more than 110 highly citable original articles with 102 articles as principal author in areas of research such as cardiovascular and cardio-metabolic health, preventive cardiology, quality of care and hospital medicine, primary care, epidemiology, family medicine, geriatric medicine, emergency medicine, communicable and non-communicable diseases, etc. He is a member of Review Boards of reputable national and international journals and has reviewed more than 10,000 manuscripts. He is also a member of Editorial Boards of international and national journals having edited more than 500 manuscripts, particularly for BMC Primary Care. Professor Iloh has also reviewed and contributed to several international and national textbooks. He has been a guest and keynote speaker at international and national symposia and conferences. 
 

Csaba Móczár: Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Dr Móczár is an associate lecturer and clinical trainer of the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. He is specialized in Family Medicine and works as a family doctor. His research interests primarily focus on the preventive care of cardiovascular diseases in primary care. As a board member of the Hungarian Society of Hypertension, he also participates in its research activity. Furthermore, he is the editor-in-chief of a Hungarian journal for general practitioners dealing with cardiovascular prevention.

About the Collection

BMC Primary Care has published this Collection on Prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading global cause of mortality, primarily driven by ischemic heart disease and stroke. The prevalence of heart and circulatory diseases poses a significant burden on public health, particularly in countries with aging populations, where disparities in CVD incidence and outcomes are observed due to variations in behavioral and inherent risk factors, as well as societal inequalities.

To address these challenges, primary care healthcare professionals (HCPs) play a crucial role in preventing, identifying, and managing cardiovascular disease. Their objective is to alleviate the global burden of the disease by reducing hospitalizations and deaths. Within primary care settings, HCPs can identify cardiovascular risk factors, offer patient education and suggest lifestyle modifications, ensure early diagnosis of CVD, and promote medication adherence, hypertension management, and lipid management. In primary care, HCPs have the ability to create personalized treatment plans, which is particularly relevant when comorbidities are present (e.g., diabetes, depression, and COPD) and affect disease management. The evaluation of diagnostic tools in primary care is also vital for assessing disease severity, identifying comorbidities, and determining the effectiveness of interventions and prognostic outcomes.

In this Collection, BMC Primary Care supports the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being and SDG10: Reducing Inequalities by collating high-quality research related to the management and prevention of CVD by healthcare professionals working in primary care, and resolving inequalities in CVD diagnosis, care, and outcomes.

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  1. Substantial variability in response to lifestyle interventions has been recognized for many years, and researchers have begun to disentangle sources of error from inherent differences in individual responsiven...

    Authors: Scott B. Maitland, Paula Brauer, David M. Mutch, Dawna Royall, Doug Klein, Angelo Tremblay, Caroline Rheaume and Khursheed Jeejeebhoy
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:357
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  2. Hypertension is a common heart condition in the United States (US) and severely impacts racial and ethnic minority populations. While the understanding of hypertension has grown considerably, there remain gaps...

    Authors: Emmanuel Adediran, Robert Owens, Elena Gardner, Andrew Curtin, John Stuligross, Danielle Forbes, Jing Wang and Dominik Ose
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:311
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  3. Hypertension, a chronic medical condition affecting millions of people worldwide, is a leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to reduce the burden of the disease, with...

    Authors: Katrien Danhieux, Marieke Hollevoet, Sien Lismont, Pieter Taveirne, Lotte Van Vaerenbergh, Bert Vaes and Steve Van den Bulck
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:305
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  4. The ‘Taking the screening tests close to the people’ program offers cardiovascular screening to the inhabitants of underprivileged settlements. This study aimed to evaluate the cardiovascular risk factors of u...

    Authors: Lilla Andréka, Orsolya Csenteri-Bárdos, Gergő József Szőllősi, Péter Andréka, Zoltán Jancsó and Péter Vajer
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:289
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  5. Obesity (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2) is a major risk factor for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and affects most patients with HFpEF. Patients living with obesity may experience delays in H...

    Authors: Carlos Campos, Melissa Magwire, Javed Butler, Anthony Hoovler, Anup Sabharwal and Sanjiv J. Shah
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:288
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  6. The management in primary care (PC) of the patients with Heart Failure (HF) is different from the management hospital, in a special way compared to cardiology departments.

    Authors: Sergio Cinza-Sanjurjo, Miguel Ángel Prieto-Díaz, Vicente Pallarés-Carratalá, Rafael M. Micó-Pérez, Sonsoles Velilla-Zancada, Alfonso Barquilla-García, Leovigildo Ginel-Mendoza, Antonio Segura-Fragoso, Vicente Martín-Sánchez and José Polo-García
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:271
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  7. SCORE2 has been introduced as an updated risk assessment tool for calculating the 10-year risk of first-onset cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, it does not account for ethnicity or socioeconomic status, k...

    Authors: Mustafa Saleh, Helena Salminen and Marina Taloyan
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:198
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  8. There is inconsistent utilisation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening and management by healthcare professionals to identify CVD risk factors early and to interven...

    Authors: Jill Bruneau, Donna Moralejo and Karen Parsons
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:185
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  9. Engaging patients and community members in healthcare implementation, research and evaluation has become more popular over the past two decades. Despite the growing interest in patient engagement, there is sca...

    Authors: Linda Zittleman, John M. Westfall, Danelle Callen, Alisha M. Herrick, Carolina Nkouaga, Matthew Simpson, L. Miriam Dickinson, Douglas Fernald, Arthur Kaufman, Aimee F. English, W. Perry Dickinson and Donald E. Nease Jr
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:135
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  10. NHS Health Check (NHSHC) is a national cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk identification and management programme. However, evidence suggests a limited understanding of the most used metric to communicate CVD r...

    Authors: Lisa Cowap, Victoria Riley, Sarah Grogan, Naomi J. Ellis, Diane Crone, Elizabeth Cottrell, Ruth Chambers, David Clark-Carter and Christopher J. Gidlow
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:126
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  11. While remote patient management (RPM) has the potential to assist in achieving treatment targets for cardiovascular risk factors in primary care, its effectiveness may vary among different patient subgroups. P...

    Authors: Margot Rakers, Nicoline van Hattem, Iris Simic, Niels Chavannes, Petra van Peet, Tobias Bonten, Rimke Vos and Hendrikus van Os
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:122
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  12. The salutogenic theory forms the basis for health promotion and describes health as a continuum from a dis-ease pole of health to an ease pole. The core concept for the salutogenic theory is sense of coherence...

    Authors: Lisbeth M. Johansson, Eleonor I. Fransson, Hans Lingfors and Marie Golsäter
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:105
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  13. Cardiovascular diseases are becoming more frequent throughout the world. Adherence to both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, as well as lifestyles, is important for good management and control...

    Authors: Álvaro Carbonell-Soliva, Rauf Nouni-García, Adriana López-Pineda, Alberto Cordero-Fort, Virtudes Pérez-Jover, Jose A. Quesada, Domingo Orozco-Beltrán, Andreu Nolasco, Jose Maria Castellano-Vázquez, Jose Joaquín Mira-Solves, Vicente F. Gil-Guillen and Concepción Carratala-Munuera
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:59
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  14. Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality if not properly managed. Primary care has a major impact on these outcomes if its strengths, such as continuity of care, are deployed wisely. The anal...

    Authors: Christoph Strumann, Nicola J. Engler, Wolfgang C. G. von Meissner, Paul-Georg Blickle and Jost Steinhäuser
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:54
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  15. Australian cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines recommend absolute CVD risk assessment, but less than half of eligible patients have the required risk factors recorded due to fragmented implement...

    Authors: Carissa Bonner, Samuel Cornell, Kristen Pickles, Carys Batcup, Carl de Wet, Mark Morgan, Kim Greaves, Denise O’Connor, Anna L Hawkes, Paul Crosland, Niamh Chapman and Jenny Doust
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2024 25:49
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  16. People living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) have an increased risk of developing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) compared with people without HIV. The multimorbidity of NCDs and HIV increases the ne...

    Authors: Abebe Sorsa Badacho and Ozayr Haroon Mahomed
    Citation: BMC Primary Care 2023 24:244
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