Themed short track - “Prediction of CVD – genes and risk factors”

In our Short Tracks we collect recent lectures from EAS congresses or courses, putting them together to provide up-to-date perspectives on a given current topic. Under this headline, we have selected two presentations given at the EAS Congress in Maastricht 2019:

The genetic burden in CVD

This presentation was given as a lecture by Heribert Schunkert, Professor in Cardiology of the Technische Universitaet Munich, Director of the Cardiology Department and Medical Director of the German Heart Centre Munich. Estimating risk – what’s new?

This presentation was given as a lecture by Ian Graham, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in Trinity College, Dublin, and Professor Emeritus of Preventive Cardiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.