The European Program for Prevention (www.epprevention.eu), which we officially launched on June 4 in Warsaw, has been published in the Global Heart, the official journal of the World Heart Federation.
The EPP offers clear, practical prevention solutions from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that can be readily adopted elsewhere. It is a tool that can help shift focus from regenerative and interventional medicine to prevention – avoiding disease and significantly reducing costs, which is critically important in an aging society with increasingly constrained healthcare resources.
‼️ The main aims of the EPP are:
☑️ To enhance knowledge and awareness of validated best-practice preventive healthcare solutions already implemented in CEE countries, which face Europe’s highest burden of civilization-related diseases;
☑️ To highlight the underestimated potential of the CEE region in advancing innovative preventive healthcare strategies;
☑️ To evaluate whether existing successful healthcare solutions in the CEE region can be adapted and implemented in other countries (both within and beyond the CEE region) to establish a coordinated, comprehensive prevention framework;
☑️ To demonstrate how program-recommended solutions could effectively reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, established CVD, and its complications, thereby minimizing reliance on costly therapies and procedures with limited clinical benefits;
☑️ To shift healthcare priorities toward pre-disease prevention by reducing dependence on reactive, resource-intensive regenerative medicine and instead emphasizing early diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and complication management.
☑️ To link and integrate national registries that focus on at-risk individuals, and to develop new ones, using standardized variables and innovative AI-based data-collection methods, in order to build large, accessible epidemiological databases.
☑️ To support existing programs – such as 👉 the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan and the activities led by 👉 the World Heart Federation (WHF) or 👉World Health Organization (WHO).
Full paper: https://lnkd.in/dXRwxNGF
Thanks to all the EPP Leaders‼️ Please feel invited for the EPP Meeting in Poland on 👉29th January 2026 ‼️ More information soon‼️ Stay tuned‼️
Zlatko Fras Ivan Pećin Prof.Dr.Gani Bajraktari, FESC, FACC Bojko Bjelakovic
Ibadete Bytyçi Richard Češka Dragan M. Djuric Robert J. Gil Raimondas Kubilius Gustavs Latkovskis Olena Mitchenko Paragh György Petrulionienė Žaneta Arman Postadzhiyan Anca Mihaela Pantea Stoian Piotr Szymański
Dragos Vinereanu Michal Vrablík Ministerstwo Zdrowia European Alliance for Cardiovascular Health (EACH) European Society of Cardiology European Commission Oliver Varhelyi Adam Jarubas Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda Jakub Golab Jagat Narula MD PhD Raul Santos Željko Reiner Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II Vlastimil Válek Karmen Joller Silvi Kirilov
