World Heart Day is an international campaign organized by the World Heart Federation with the aim of engaging with individuals, families, communities and governments around the world to spread awareness of the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
世界心脏联合会（WHF）最初于1978年成立，现在，世界卫生组织的认可为其在CVD预防领先的非政府组织合作伙伴。WHF的主要目标是将来自CVD的过早死亡至少25％到2025年。
心disease is very susceptible to lifestyle modifications, and simple interventions like monitoring and controlling high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels; managing diabetes appropriately; encouraging good nutrition, and modest exercise; and stopping smoking have been shown to reduce heart disease significantly.
Professor Vipin Zamvar
Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
The theme for this year’s World Heart Day on September 29this ‘Share the power’. By empowering and inspiring millions of people across the globe, World Heart Day 2017 will promote making “small changes”, such as eating a healthy diet, getting more exercise, and giving up smoking, in order to make a powerful difference to heart health. While World Heart Day aims to raise awareness that CVD is the number one cause of death worldwide, this year’s campaign emphasizes the need for increased investment in strategies for CVD prevention in low and middle income countries, which account for 80% of CVD deaths.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is categorized as any disease of the heart, vascular disease of the brain, or disease of the blood vessel. The most prevalent cardiovascular diseases include coronary heart disease (e.g. heart attack) and cerebrovascular disease (e.g. stroke).¹ BMC has a number of Open Access cardiology journals that publish innovative and cutting edge research on CVD and other heart conditions.
BMC的心脏学期刊
最近发表的articleinCardiovascular Ultrasound审查了心脏冲击波治疗治疗冠状动脉疾病。总体而言，审查发现，心脏冲击波疗法是终末期冠状动脉疾病患者的有前进的非侵入性选择。
TheJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgeryconsistently publishes cutting-edge research on clinical and experimental advances in cardiac and thoracic surgery, and related fields. The journal recently published a researcharticlewhich investigated the effect of preoperative liver dysfunction on cardiac surgery outcomes. The article concludes that patients with liver dysfunction are at a clear disadvantage for most cardiac procedures and emphasizes the importance of careful patient selection.
The Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Professor Vipin Zamvar, summarizes his thoughts on the importance of World Heart Day:
“即使在过去的15年里，由于心脏病引起的死亡率超过20％，它仍然是全世界死亡的主要原因。好消息是它吸引了所有研究支出的20％;在过去二十年中，已经对理解和治疗心脏相关疾病进行了壮观的进展。
心disease is very susceptible to lifestyle modifications, and simple interventions like monitoring and controlling high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels; managing diabetes appropriately; encouraging good nutrition, and modest exercise; and stopping smoking have been shown to reduce heart disease significantly.
On this World Heart Day, I hope we can spread this very obvious message to a big audience.”
Congenital heart disease is also a topic of interest on World Heart Day, as over one million babies are born each year with congenital heart defects worldwide.¹ The先天性心脏病学杂志, launched in June 2017, is a new open access journal published by BMC that publishes content on all areas of congenital cardiology.
你能做什么？
世界心脏日是一个很棒的机会，让参与提高关于CVD的意识，并激励个人立即制作“小变化”来鼓励全世界的心健康生活。
Watch a video about World Heart Day, by the World Heart Foundation here:
¹ World Heart Federation:https://www.worldheartday.org/whdcvd/
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