Cardiology and Vascular Imaging

Preventive Cardiology

The area of preventive cardiology has evolved to treat the span of coronary disease risk factors and coronary artery disease. By assessing individual risk and starting early medication to prevent, delay, or modify the development of clinical atherosclerosis, as well as treating people after the indication of symptomatic coronary artery disease.

The main purpose of preventive cardiology is to distinguish people at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is prevented by regular exercise, reducing junk food intake, smoking tobacco, excessive alcohol consumption, and maintaining optimal circulatory load and normal LDL cholesterol and glucose levels.