The Healthy Heart Trust

Most cardiovascular disease can be prevented by addressing behavioural risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet and obesity, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol, but accumulating evidence supports the notion that persistent inequalities in our social environments shape the personal lifestyle choices which profoundly influence disease risk factors.

Watch this webinar to understand the latest evidence on socioeconomic inequality and cardiovascular disease and hear inspiring perspectives from a grassroots movement to address poverty.

The agenda includes:
– Chair: Prof Albert Fero, Professor of Cardiovascular Clinical Pharmacology, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, King’s College London, and Chair of the Healthy Heart Trust
– Dr Dorien Kimenai, BHF Intermediate Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, “Socioeconomic Deprivation: A Neglected Risk Factor in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease”
– Brian Scott, Volunteer/Activist, Poverty Truth Community and APLE Collective, prev. Cardiology Nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, “Not the sick man of Europe – It’s the sick man next door!”
Followed by a Q&A with the live audience
This session was overseen and coordinated by Dr Antonis Kousoulis, with Sumaty Hernandez-Farina.

This online seminar was part of World Healthy Life Week 2023, with the theme: “Health Inequalities: Towards Cardiovascular Health Equity”. In partnership with the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

The World Healthy Life Week is an international event, now in its fourth year. It is hosted by the Healthy Heart Trust, the healthy heart charity established in 1996. It is about taking a holistic view of our health to promote a healthy life for all by focusing on the message of how keeping our heart healthy is central to our overall good health.

A series of webinars is at the heart of the Week’s activities to enable the exchange of knowledge on the evidence of promoting health and preventing illness and inspire people and decision-makers to take positive action to protect heart health.

You can watch the webinar here: