How-to Articles

Primary Care & Risk Factor Management

Investigating and defining standards in the primary care setting, including risk factor management.

• How to counteract physical Inactivity in primary prevention: can the wearable devices be a useful tool?
  Elio Venturini answers key questions on this topic
• How to counsel patients on lifestyle modifications for cardiovascular health in primary care
  Oleksii Korzh provides practical information

Secondary Prevention & Rehabilitation

Investigating and defining standards for better recognition of cardiac rehabilitation.

• Recommendations on how to provide cardiac rehabilitation activities during the COVID-19 pandemic (open access)
• Practical recommendations by Dr. Maria Simonenko:
  • How to manage diabetes in heart recipients (together with Hareld Kemps)
  • How to exercise while being on a heart transplant waiting list
  • How to prevent and treat dyslipidaemia after heart transplantation
  • How to manage heart rate after heart transplantation
  • How to exercise after heart transplantation
  • How to prevent and manage arterial hypertension after heart transplantation
• How to provide telerehabilitation in cardiac patients
  A practical guide by Dr. Martijn Scherrenberg, Prof. Paul Dendale and Dr. Ines Frederix
• How to prescribe aerobic interval exercise in patients with coronary artery disease: The SAINTEX-CAD Study
  A practical guide for the implementation of interval training in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) by N. Pattyn, V. Cornelissen, D. Hansen, P. Beckers and E. Van Craenenbroeck
• How to decipher the mystery of a women’s heart?
  I. Frederix, E. Govaerts and P. Dendale provide a practical guide on how to approach a woman with presumed ischaemic heart disease (IHD)
• How to assess endothelial function in (secondary) prevention
  Romualdo Belardinelli, summarises the most common methods in clinical practice
• How to set up and run a cardiac rehabilitation program
  Hugo Saner, Director Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation of University Hospital Bern, answers key questions
• How to manage physiotherapy and rehabilitation in LVAD patients
  Michel Lamotte, Dominique Hansen and Philippe Timmermans provide updated state-of-the-art insights

Population Science & Public Health

Promoting the essentials of population prevention science. 

• How to leverage ChatGPT for cardiovascular prevention
  Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai and Maja-Lisa Løchen provide practical information
• How to manage blood cholesterol in primary and secondary prevention
  Dr. Konstantinos Koskinas answers key questions on this topic
• How to prevent chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity
  Eugenio Greco answers key questions

Sports Cardiology & Exercise

Cardiac screening, education and science evolution in sports cardiology. 

• How to evaluate a female athlete
  Silvia Castelletti and Sabiha Gati answer key questions
• How to manage an athlete with mitral valve prolapse? 
  Dr. Elena Cavarretta and colleagues provide practical information
• How to interpret right ventricular remodeling in athletes
  Maria Sanz de la Garza and Amelia Carro provide practical information
• How to conduct pre-participation screening in athletes
  Erik Ekker Solberg, EAPC Sports Cardiology Section, answers key questions
• How to exercise with grown-up congenital heart disease
  Michael Papadakis, EAPC Sports Cardiology Section, answers key questions

Exercise, Basic & Translational Research 

Promoting high-quality research and education related to exercise, basic and translational science.

• How to use cardiopulmonary exercise testing in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation
  Alessandro Mezzani and Marco Guazzi, EAPC Exercise, Basic and Translational Research Section, answer key questions