Risk awareness in ProSALUTE, a new community program for cardiovascular health in Milan, Italy

Background: Awareness of the own cardiovascular (CV) risk is a prerequisite to follow preventive actions. Risk awareness requires health literacy and self-knowledge, and both depend on many context-specific factors. ProSALUTE is an experimental CV health program for the medium/low-income and multi-ethnic community of the Ponte Lambro district, Milan, Italy (n=3600 adults). CV risk domains are assessed through an assisted questionnaire and objective anthropometric and laboratory measures are obtained to estimate CV risk and to propose personalized interventions.
Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - Category: Nutrition Authors: Source Type: research