ESC Guidelines on prevention and rehabilitation in coronary heart disease and current practice: the EUROASPIRE VI survey
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2026
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: This observational study investigated whether patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) in Europe are achieving the standards set by prevention and rehabilitation guidelines. Variability was studied: (i) between countries; (ii) between geographical risk regions; and (iii) attendance at cardiac rehabilitation (CR) with outcomes. METHODS: Observational study between September 2024- February 2026 in 160 hospitals across 27 countries. Geographical risk regions were defined as high, moderate or low based on WHO cardiovascular mortality data. RESULTS: Among 8590 patients with CHD (23.7% female), 17.1% were current smokers, 32.0% were obese and 33.5% reported low physical activity. 59.8% were above blood pressure target (systolic ≥ 130 and/or diastolic ≥ 80 mmHg), 82.7% were above LDL-C target (≥ 1.4 mmol/l), 32.8% had known diabetes of whom 42.2% had HbA1c ≥ 7% and 30.6% had chronic kidney disease. Prevalences of these risk factors were all highest in countries from high risk regions. 29.1% of patients attended at least one CR session, with country variability ranging from 0% to 79%, and differing by risk region (55.9% low risk, 29.7% moderate risk and 10.2% high risk; p < 0.001). Attendance at CR programme was associated with significantly better lifestyles, risk factor control and use of cardioprotective drugs. CONCLUSIONS: Most European patients are not achieving targets set by prevention guidelines. There is marked variability in CR attendance, evidence of inverse care with lowest attendance in highest risk regions, despite better outcomes for CR. These results inform the challenges for implementation of the first ESC guideline on CR.
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| Authors | D.R. Wood, Catriona Jennings, Kornelia Kotseva, Agnieszka Adamska, Iris Erlund, Sandra Ganly, Per‐Henrik Groop, Susan Hennessy, Maarten J.G. Leening, Linda Mellbin, Kausik K. Ray, Lars Rydén, Terhi Vihervaara, Victor Aboyans, Ana Abreu, Carlos Aguíar, Karl Andersen, Jolita Badarienė, Jan Bruthans, Monika Burzyńska, Almudena Castro Conde, Renata Cífková, Furio Colivicchi, Kairat Davletov, Mirza Dilić, Elena Dimitrova, М. М. Долженко, Vilnis Dzērve, Andrejs Ērglis, Zlatko Fras, Barış Güngör, Peter U. Heuschmann, Piotr Jankowski, Iulia Kulcsar, Nebojša Lalić, Seppo Lehto, Dragan Lović, Aldo P. Maggioni, Fabrice M A C Martens, Lampros K. Michalis, Davor Miličić, Erkin М Мirrakhimov, Greg Murphy, Öner Özdoğan, Jurgita Plisienė, Željko Reiner, Stefan Störk, Lâle Tokgözoğlu, Jamol Uzokov, Duško Vulić, Dirk De Bacquer, John W. McEvoy |
| Journal | european heart journal |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/eurheartj/ehag741
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