What is the biggest future challenge for cardiovascular disease prevention?
For the decade ahead, we have worked to strengthen national objectives for heart disease and stroke prevention through the Healthy People 2020 process. These build on the 2010 objectives and improve their alignment with the continuing goals of prevention of risk factors, detection and treatment of risk factors, early identification of heart attacks and strokes, and prevention of recurrent cardiovascular events. They will include a focus on caediovascular health, and not only measures of CVD. In parallel, the American Heart Association has adopted within its 2020 Impact Goal the improvement of cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20%. These developments have called for explicit definition of cardiovascular health and devising metrics that can be tracked through nationally representative data sources. In some important cases, meeting these requirements means substantial improvement of CVD surveillance, a further area of groundwork now actively under development. J&B: Tell us about w
