Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke – the top two leading causes of death and disability in Europe – amount to over EUR 170 billion in health care costs. Tens of thousands of these deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) were actually preventable.
The increasingly ageing European population makes it imperative to find evidence-based solutions for accurate and early diagnosis as well as better clinical management of CVD.
Further details: Personalised care for hearts at risk