Heart Health and Disease Prevention focuses on protecting the cardiovascular system long before symptoms appear, using evidence-based strategies to reduce risk and extend healthy lifespan. This session explains how lifestyle, environment, genetics, and medical conditions interact to shape long term outcomes, and why prevention must begin years before the first event. Clinicians, researchers, and public health professionals seeking a dedicated heart prevention and wellness forum will find that this session functions like a practical Heart Health and Disease Prevention roadmap, translating guidelines into actions that work in real clinics and communities.

The description examines the hierarchy of cardiovascular risk factors, from non modifiable traits such as age, sex, family history, and ethnicity to modifiable drivers including hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity, smoking, physical inactivity, and chronic stress. Participants will explore how clustering of risks, social determinants of health, and exposure to air pollution or unhealthy food environments amplify lifetime risk. The session highlights common gaps in routine care, including missed screening opportunities, underuse of preventive therapies, and low adherence to lifestyle advice.

A central emphasis is implementing heart disease prevention strategies that are realistic, scalable, and tailored to individual readiness for change. The session discusses designing personalized plans for diet, activity, sleep, weight management, and stress reduction while integrating medications such as statins, antihypertensives, and glucose lowering therapies when appropriate. Participants will learn communication techniques that transform abstract risk scores into motivating conversations, empowering patients to take ownership of their heart health.

The content also explores how structured programs, digital tools, and team based care models enhance prevention. Examples include nurse led clinics, community screening campaigns, workplace wellness initiatives, home blood pressure monitoring, and remote coaching platforms. Attention is given to equity, ensuring that prevention programs reach women, younger adults with hidden risks, rural communities, and underserved populations that often present late with severe disease.

Future perspectives include use of polygenic risk scores, wearables that track cumulative lifestyle exposure, AI enabled risk prediction, and population dashboards that identify communities with rising cardiovascular risk. By the end of the session, participants will understand how sustained heart conference style collaboration between clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and patients can shift focus from treating events to preserving heart health across the life course.

In addition, the session examines policy level interventions, such as tobacco control, trans fat bans, front of pack nutrition labelling, active transport infrastructure, and fiscal measures that nudge populations toward healthier choices. Participants will see how clinical practice, community engagement, and policy advocacy intersect, and why clinicians play a vital role in shaping environments that make the healthy choice the easy choice. Practical take home tools will help attendees design prevention pathways that fit their own healthcare setting.