World Heart Day 2021

According to the World Heart Federation, 31% of all deaths worldwide are caused by cardiovascular disease. Some conditions are hereditary yet can be treated medically or surgically. Of note, a vast number of cardiovascular diseases are reversible and can be cured or even prevented with lifestyle modification.

September 29 marks World Heart Day. This year the World Heart Federation calls us to "Use heart to connect." Gaining and spreading knowledge on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease is our best weapon to fight this threat and save lives.

Cardiovascular diseases is an umbrella term for numerous entities. Here is a concise overview of specific topics covered in our Textbook:

• Anticoagulant Treatment (recently updated)

• Automaticity and Conduction Disorders

• Cardiac Arrest

• Cardiac Arrhythmias

• Cardiac Tamponade

• Cardiomyopathy

• Congenital Heart Disease in Adults (recently updated)

• Heart Failure (HF)

• Hypertension

• Infective Endocarditis (IE)

• Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD)

• Lipid Disorders

• Myocarditis

• Pericarditis

• Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

• Shock

• Valvular Heart Disease

• Vascular Diseases, Peripheral

• Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) (recently updated)

On our website you can also find additional materials focused on cardiovascular health:

• McMaster Perspective: Hypertension management after the SPRINT trial with Dr Anna Mathew

• McMaster Perspective: The role of high-intensity walking in PAD management with Dr Sonia Anand

• McMaster Perspective: Heart failure treatment: A decade of progress with Dr Harriette Van Spall

• McMaster Perspective: Heart failure treatment: The evolution of vasodilators with Dr Harriette Van Spall

• Publications of the Week, July 28: Intensive versus standard blood pressure control

• The 3 most important recent advances in treating cardiac arrhythmias by Dr Tatjana Potpara

• The 3 most important recent advances in treating heart failure by Dr Harriette Van Spall

• Rapid Refresher: Atrial fibrillation (AF) with Dr Heather Bannerman, Dr Syamkumar Divakara Menon, and Dr Roman Jaeschke

• Rapid Refresher: Chest pain with Dr Akbar Panju

• Rapid Refresher: Non–ST-segment elevation ACS with Dr Shaan Gupta, Dr Michael Tsang, and Dr Siobhan Deshauer

• Rapid Refresher: ST-segment elevation ACS with Dr Shaan Gupta

Take the opportunity to watch free lectures and expert discussions recorded at the McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine (MIRCIM) 2021:

• What's new in the management of chronic heart failure by Dr Harriette Van Spall

• A patient revolution for careful and kind care by Dr Victor Montori

• An evidence-based practitioner’s experience of careful and kind care by Dr Gordon Guyatt

• Panel discussion and Q&A session I: Cardiovascular diseases – part 1 with Dr Harriette Van Spall, Dr Andrew Elder, Dr David Hasdai, Dr Christian Mueller, and Dr Matthew Sibbald

• Panel discussion and Q&A session II: Cardiovascular diseases – part 2 with Dr Tatjana Potpara, Dr Adam Torbicki, Dr Stephan Haulon, Dr Reinhold Kreutz, and Dr Roman Jaeschke