European Journal of Preventive Cardiology and secondary cardiovascular prevention and sport cardiology. It publishes 18 issues yearly and abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2016 impact factor is 3.6, ranking it 43th out of 125 journals in the category "Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems". Areas of interests are Cardiovascular primary and secondary preventions, (including arterial hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, obesity, smoking cessation, healthy life style promotion), epidemiology, cardiac rehabilitation, exercise training and physiology, sport cardiology, population science intervention. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology is a peer-reviewed medical journal that
Salt and cardiovascular disease rates of cardiovascular disease. ". . .we have found that the Japanese dietary pattern is associated with lower CVD mortality, despite the fact that the Japanese dietary pattern appeared to be related to higher sodium intake and high prevalence of hypertension." Some studies have shown that salt consumption has been found to increase the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, arterial stiffness and heart failure. In the majority of studies, reducing sodium intake lowers the risk of hypertension and associated cardiovascular disorders. In a few studies, both high (more than 7 g/day) and low salt intake (less than 3 g/day) were