Cardiología preventiva y rehabilitación

Preventive cardiology occupies a central place in medicine today. The subject monopolizes a large proportion of epidemiological studies and clinical trials involving a range of drugs. Moreover, preventive cardiology provided the initial impetus for regarding genetic epidemiology as a basis for disease prevention. The aim of this article was to summarize just some of the publications that have appeared during the last few months, with special emphases on obesity and diabetes mellitus as the pre-eminent risk factors for disease, and on their combination as part of the so-called metabolic syndrome.