Primordial Prevention and Wearable Health Devices: The Wearables in Cardiology

Epidemiology has shown the growing importance of prevention as a way of dealing with the cardiovascular risk epidemic. One of the fundamental changes in concepts in recent decades was the shift in the prevention paradigm to ever earlier stages, both in the disease development, affecting an increasing number of individuals that have yet to develop a pathological condition or those who are in the early and treatable stages, as of the life line itself, looking for the origin of chronic diseases in intrauterine life. Thus, the concept of primordial prevention arose, that is, the prevention of the actual risk factors.

Ideally, preventing the establishment of risk factors in a population would keep it disease-free. Although utopian, the scenario described is useful to guide prevention strategies. One of the main current objectives is to reach the greatest possible number of individuals before they develop a risk profile.

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