Effective Cardiovascular Disease Prevention is the cornerstone of reducing heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and premature mortality worldwide. This session focuses on how to move beyond treating late-stage disease toward systematically identifying risk earlier and intervening long before major events occur. Participants will explore the complementary roles of lifestyle change, pharmacologic therapy, and systems-level interventions in lowering global cardiovascular risk. Emphasis is placed on practical, stepwise approaches that clinicians can implement in primary care, cardiology clinics, occupational health settings, and community programs. As interest in a dedicated cardiology conference grows, this session is designed to connect current evidence with real-world workflows and resource constraints.

A key theme is understanding absolute risk and tailoring preventive cardiology strategies to individual patients. Attendees will revisit traditional risk factors—blood pressure, lipids, glycemia, smoking, obesity, and family history—while also considering psychosocial stress, sleep, physical inactivity, and social determinants of health. The session reviews global and regional risk calculators, coronary artery calcium scoring, and emerging biomarkers that refine risk assessment. Case-based discussions demonstrate how to convert risk numbers into compelling, patient-centered conversations that motivate behavior change and support shared decisions around statins, antihypertensives, antiplatelets, and other therapies.

The session then explores how prevention works across the life course, from primordial prevention in childhood and adolescence to aggressive secondary prevention after an acute coronary event. Participants will see how high-impact lifestyle interventions—nutrition, physical activity, weight management, alcohol moderation, and smoking cessation—can be realistically embedded into routine consultations. Practical frameworks show how to coordinate with dietitians, physiotherapists, psychologists, and community partners, ensuring that patients are not merely given advice but connected to concrete resources and programs that sustain change.

Finally, the session broadens to population-level and policy perspectives. Attendees will examine how workplace wellness, school-based initiatives, taxation and labelling policies, and urban design all shape cardiovascular risk in the communities they serve. Strategies for building multidisciplinary prevention clinics, tracking quality indicators, and integrating digital tools such as apps and remote monitoring are also outlined. By the end, participants will be equipped to champion prevention in their own settings, using evidence-based tools to slow the cardiovascular epidemic and protect population health over decades to come.