Prevention Conference Sessions

lock Evaporating Benefits of e-Vaping

This session will provide a balanced overview of the use of nicotine vaping devices for smoking cessation and the broader implications of their use for Society as a whole.

lock Should We Be Concerned With the “Sitting Disease”?

This session will address what the sitting disease is, how much sitting is bad for our health and wellbeing and what can be done to combat it.

lock Optimum Nutritional Strategies for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Rehaibilitation

In this session Tom will discuss the recent BACPR dietary guidelines published earlier this year, in addition to discussing current hot topics and controversial areas in the area of cardiovascular nutrition.

lock Hypertension Screening and Management at a Distance

Management of hypertension during COVID.

lock Avatar Approaches in Self-Management of Heart Failure

Heart failure is associated with poor clinical outcomes (i.e., readmission rates and mortality rate) and substantial economic burden. The effectiveness of Heart Failure patient co-designed education apps using avatars have not been investigated previously.

lock Remote Intensive Lifestyle Interventions in Severe Obesity

This session discusses how remote lifestyle interventions are being delivered to patients with severe obesity.

lock Gaming in Cardiac Rehabilitation

This session discusses how gaming has been introduced into cardiac rehabilitation.

lock Virtual Reality Programmes to Deliver Education in Chronic Disease Management

The delivery of health information is archaic and needs innovation; Virtual reality programmes and immersive health information can provide better health understanding, overcome literacy and language barriers and enable patients to make informed decisions about their care, improving health outcomes.

lock Telecheck AF

TeleCheck-AF was developed during COVID-19 and is an on-demand mHealth intervention to assess heart rate and rhythm remotely in patients with atrial fibrillation. The session will cover the explanation of this approach and how to use it in practice.

lock The Digital Patient – The Patient Perspective

Trudie speaks about the three organisations that she has founded and descripes the correlation between the three of them.

lock Future Perspective: Technology and Cardiovascular Care

As part of the Digital Health Series at the latest National Prevention Conference, Prof Martin Cowie, Professor Of Cardiology, Imperial College London delivered a session on Future Perspective: Technology and Cardiovascular Care.

lock Where Does the Time Go? How to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour

Exploring the concept of sedentary behaviour, the social and environmental cues that facilitate sedentary living and what can we substitute in its place.