Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

In the network of cardiologists within the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology there is a strong view that the time indeed is right to publish definitively on the methods involved in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation.

We are facing a transition from conventional cardiac rehabilitation to a phase of combined preventive and rehabilitative efforts, as witnessed in the recent Joint Task Force Guidelines on Preventive Cardiology.

For this revision of our clinical routines we lack a practical textbook, based upon the conditions and resources of European health care.

This textbook is designed to fill that gap.