JOINT ESC GUIDELINES
European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012)
The Fifth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts)
Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR)† Authors/Task Force Members: Joep Perk (Chairperson) (Sweden)*, Guy De Backer 1 ˇ (Belgium), Helmut Gohlke1 (Germany), Ian Graham 1 (Ireland), Zeljko Reiner 2 (Croatia), W.M. Monique Verschuren1 (The Netherlands), Christian Albus 3 (Germany), Pascale Benlian 1 (France), Gudrun Boysen 4 (Denmark), Renata Cifkova 5 (Czech Republic), Christi Deaton 1 (UK), Shah Ebrahim 1 (UK), Miles Fisher 6 (UK), Giuseppe Germano 1 (Italy), Richard Hobbs 1,7 (UK), Arno Hoes 7 (The Netherlands), Sehnaz Karadeniz 8 (Turkey), Alessandro Mezzani 1 (Italy), Eva Prescott 1 (Denmark), ¨nne9 (Finland), Lars Ryden 1 (Sweden), Martin Scherer 7 (Germany), Mikko Syva Wilma J.M. Scholte Op Reimer 1 (The Netherlands), Christiaan Vrints 1 (Belgium), David Wood 1 (UK), Jose Luis Zamorano1 (Spain), Faiez Zannad 1 (France).
Other experts who contributed to parts of the guidelines: Marie Therese Cooney (Ireland). ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG): Jeroen Bax (Chairman) (The Netherlands), Helmut Baumgartner (Germany), Claudio Ceconi (Italy), Veronica Dean (France), Christi Deaton (UK), Robert Fagard (Belgium), Christian Funck-Brentano (France), David Hasdai (Israel), Arno Hoes (The Netherlands), Paulus Kirchhof (Germany), Juhani Knuuti (Finland), Philippe Kolh (Belgium), Theresa McDonagh (UK), Cyril Moulin (France), ˇ Bogdan A. Popescu (Romania), Zeljko Reiner (Croatia), Udo Sechtem (Germany), Per Anton Sirnes (Norway), Michal Tendera (Poland), Adam Torbicki (Poland),