AUTHOR
Roberto S.G. Mendia.
Honours Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Università degli
Studi of Milan-Italy.
Specialist in Cardiology and Internal Medicine at
the same university. Master?s degree in Healthcare Management and Organisation
from the Università Bocconi of Milan.
Wide experience in clinical directorate and public hospital management.
CurrenCurrently head of the intensive care unit of a large private hospital north of
Milan.
Twenty years’ experience in treating cardiovascular pathologies and
cardiovascular disease prevention. Particularly wide and specific experience in
dealing with problems of patients who have undergone heart surgery.
Dr. Mendia is responsible for the fundamental project and the creation of this
site Cardiovascularprevention.com which required several years of
research and planning. The first version of the site was launched on line in May
2007. Since then the site has been continuously updated and modified with
additional new material.
Cardiovascularprevention.com was created because of the fact that
cardiovascular diseases, like myocardial infarctions, and stroke , are the main
cause of mortality and morbidity in Italy and other industrialised countries,
higher than all forms of cancer, but in spite of this fact, no detailed
prevention programs exist on a national basis.
Cholesterol analysis and common risk factors failed to predict more than one
third of cardiac deaths caused by coronary artery disease. In fact, in
approximately 30% of patients, myocardial infarction or sudden death are the
first signs of coronary artery disease, in patients with no apparent risk
factors.
This site contains certain innovative instruments for advanced assessment of
cardiovascular risk , for calculating the level of cardiovascular risk (also
including new risk factors) for studying cardiovascular pathologies still in the
pre-clinical phase. For this reason, this site is directed at identifying these
asymptomatic patients, but who are at high risk, and therefore vulnerable.
It would seem that up till today no tests have been published on line to
identify and quantify coronary and carotid Atherosclerosis (ATS test), set up in
relation to an in-depth assessment of common and uncommon risk factors
(FR Test).
Le The opinions expressed are generally in agreement with
international guidelines even if there may be certain slight differences that
reflect the personal opinions and the experience of the Author.
An extensive bibliography is available, and is regularly updated.
This sThis site is not sponsored, is not financed by any health product
publicity and abides by all the Honcode principles.
Contact: info@cardiovascularprevention.com
Last Up-date 8th march 2009
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