Considerations and Guidance for the Structure, Organisation, and Operation of Cardiometabolic Prevention Units: A Consensus Statement of the Inter-American Society of Cardiology

• Main Authors: Carlos I. Ponte-Negretti (Author), Fernando Stuardo Wyss (Author), Daniel Piskorz (Author), Álvaro Sosa Liprandi (Author), Alberto Lorenzatti (Author), Livia Machado (Author), Patricio López-Jaramillo (Author), Eduardo Barbosa (Author), José R. Gómez-Mancebo (Author), Ricardo López (Author), Osiris Valdez (Author), Leonardo Cobos (Author), Adriana Puente-Barragan (Author), Gabriela Borrayo (Author), Emilio Ruiz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of death worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income regions such as Latin America. This is because of the combination and interaction in different proportions of a high prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors and socio-economic and cu...