The 4th Annual Scientific meeting of the EPCCS was held on September 1-2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany
Professor Arno Hoes, Utrecht, the Netherlands and Professor Richard Hobbs, Oxford University, United Kingdom, co-chairman of 4th annual meeting of the the European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (EPCCS), offered a warm welcome to over 400 delegates from across Europe.
See here a full coverage of the conference for primary care professionals
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As a service of the EPCCS in this section an overview of the presentations and meeting highlghts form our annual scientific meetings are posted.
EPCCS Annual scientific Meeting 2010
In this section key educational resources derived from 3rd Annual scientific meeting held on September 23-24 2010 in Lisbon are posted.
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Heart failure occurs when the ventricles have a reduced ability to fill or to eject blood, resulting in an insufficient cardiac output to satisfy the metabolic needs of the body. There is a common perception that heart failure is a disease of the elderly, which has a slow onset in primary care and is always left sided.
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Prof. Deanfield and prof. Hobbs discuss the shift in focus from treating patients with clinical problems arising from established CV disease to CV prevention in patients with risk factors for developing CV disease.