“Studies and clinical practice confirm only one thing: that prevention remains the most powerful weapon for keeping the heart healthy. Among the risk factors is diabetes which many do not know they have. Diabetes, if not identified and untreated, causes several cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke, as well as kidney failure.” Thus to Adnkronos Salute Massimo Grimaldi, elected president of the National Association of hospital cardiologists (he will take office in May 2025), on the sidelines of the 55th Anmco National Congress, underway in Rimini and which brings together over 6 thousand cardiologists from all over the world. ‘Italy.
“With Anmco, in collaboration with the Foundation for Your Heart, we organize awareness campaigns to promote healthy lifestyles, which means correct diet and physical movement – explains Grimaldi, who is also director of the complex operational unit of Cardiology and of the Medical department of the Miulli regional hospital in Acquaviva delle Fonti (Bari) – Just a few weeks ago in Bari, in collaboration with the Italian Union of Sport for All (Uisp) and the endocrinologists of the Polyclinic, we organized a race in which 6 thousand participated people The objective was to raise awareness among the competitors and the public about prevention. We set up three stations for free screening, first of all electrocardiograms and blood sugar checks procedures to prevent acute and chronic complications of the disease. Diabetes, if treated poorly or neglected, especially in predisposed people, causes damage that affects various areas. More or less serious damage, among others, can be observed in the eye (retinopathy), in the kidney (nephropathy), in the nerves (neuropathy), in the arteries (vasculopathy) and in the heart (cardiopathy)”.
A thousand young cardiologists also attended the most important cardiology event in Italy. “Especially for them – continues Grimaldi – we have set up 7 stations where they can manually perform various interventional and emergency cardiology simulations and procedures”. Among these “urgent pericardiocentesis, a procedure which consists in the removal of excess fluid present in the pericardial cavity, a condition which alters the physiological contraction of the heart and which can lead to cardiac tamponade and cardiovascular collapse; central venous catheterization (Cvc), a medical which is based on the insertion of a catheter (long and thin tube, rigid or flexible and made of various materials) into one of the so-called ‘central’ veins (e.g. subclavian, femoral, internal jugular), and trans-esophageal ultrasound to diagnose and monitor certain heart diseases, such as valvular heart disease and atrial thrombosis”.
#Medicine #Grimaldi #Anmco #Prevention #powerful #weapon #maintaining #healthy #heart
