Significant advances have been made in the past century in the diagnosis, management and prognosis of patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), yet preventing CVD remains one of the biggest public health problems facing healthcare professionals worldwide.^1–3

Today, hypertension , hyperlipidaemia and diabetes are widely recognised as being three of the many important risk factors for CVD and interventions have been developed to specifically address these in order to lower CV risk. There is increasing awareness, however, that multiple risk factor management is required to prevent CVD.^4–8

Estimating an individual’s global CV risk can help guide the physician towards optimal patient management and CV risk calculators have been developed to aid clinical decisions.^4–9 In this section of the MICARDIS^® website you can read about global CV risk estimation and its importance.

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