Hypertension is the most dominant cause of death around the world, and it is connected to main preventable causes - like blood pressure, smoking, inactivity, obesity, and cholesterol:

• One risk factor can double cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but many patients have multiple factors, so that their CVD risk could increase by 400-700%.
• Despite treatment for hypertension there is a residual CVD risk.

Professor Bryan Williams’ presentation further includes CVD management indications, illustrating data from clinical trials about:

• Patients’ mutations.
• Lower LDL-cholesterol and lower systolic blood pressure (BP) on coronary events.
• Men and women CVD incidence.
• Statins and BP-lipid lowering effects.

Considering that BP cannot be lowered enough to eliminate completely the risk, Professor Williams explores the statins use - to get patient’s blood pressure and CVD risk down - analysing ESC guidelines recommendations.