Residual risk of cardiovascular diseases: from causes to posibilities of influencing

Abstract

Residual risk of cardiovascular diseases represents the level of risk of vascular events occurrence in individuals treated for dyslipidemia, arterial hypertension, metabolic syndrome and further risk factors.

Keywords

• Residual risk
• cardiovascular events
• dyslipidemia
• statins
• ACE inhibitors
• metformin
• antithrombotic treatment
• combination treatment
• prevention