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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20170040</article-id>
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          <subject>Editorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Gramado Declaration: The Impact of 20 Years of Cardiovascular Prevention</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Achutti</surname>
            <given-names>Aloyzio</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Stein</surname>
            <given-names>Ricardo</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pellanda</surname>
            <given-names>L&#250;cia</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c1"/>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Duncan</surname>
            <given-names>Bruce B.</given-names>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">Porto Alegre</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
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        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil.</institution>
        <institution content-type="normalized">Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul</institution>
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        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal de Ci&#234;ncias da Sa&#250;de de Porto Alegre</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">Porto Alegre</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
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        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Universidade Federal de Ci&#234;ncias da Sa&#250;de de Porto Alegre (UFSCPA), Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil.</institution>
        <institution content-type="normalized">Universidade Federal de Ci&#234;ncias da Sa&#250;de de Porto Alegre</institution>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Mailing Address: Lucia Pellanda</bold> &#8226; Av. Princesa Isabel, 370, 3&#186; andar. Postal Code 99620-000, Santana, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil. E-mail: <email>pellanda.pesquisa@gmail.com</email>
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      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2017</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>108</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>193</fpage>
      <lpage>194</lpage>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Cardiovascular Diseases / prevention &amp; control</kwd>
        <kwd>Cardiovascular Diseases / epidemiology</kwd>
        <kwd>Cardiovascular Diseases / trends</kwd>
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    <p>From May 1st to 10th, 1997, the First Brazilian Seminar on Cardiovascular Epidemiology,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> was held in the city of Gramado (RS), in the manner in which the World Federation of Cardiology has been promoting in various parts of the world since 1968 with The title Ten-Day International Didactic Seminars on Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>
		</p>
    <p>The initiative came from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and the Cardiology Clinical Department and of the Committe de Epidemiology and Public Health of the <italic>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</italic> (SBC), under the auspices of the Coordination of Higher Education for Personal Development (CAPES), the World Heart Federation (at that time still called the <italic>International Society and Federation of Cardiology</italic>) and the Inter-American Heart Foundation.</p>
    <p>Together with the two coordinators, Aloyzio Achutti and Bruce Duncan, several national teachers (Annick Fontbonne, Eduardo de Azeredo Costa, Emilio Moriguchi, Jorge Pinto Ribeiro, Maria In&#234;s Reinert Azambuja, Maria In&#234;s Schmidt, Paulo Lotufo, Rosely Sichieri and S&#233;rgio Bassanesi), and three international guests (Teri Manolio, Director of Epidemiology and Biometrics of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Ulrich Grueninger, Head of Research and Medical Education of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, and Woody Chambless of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina) ministered the activities. The 40 participants were from 10 Brazilian states.</p>
    <p>In addition to basic concepts of epidemiology and statistics, and topics related to etiology and the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, were part of the program issues that, although currently consecrated, were new in Brazil at the time, as medicine based in evidence and systematic/meta-analysis review. At the time of the beginning of the implantation of the Unified Health System (SUS) and the concern with chronic noncommunicable diseases as a public health problem, this unique meeting enabled and encouraged Brazilian leaders in the field of cardiovascular prevention - several of whom later assumed positions of national leadership. There was a wide debate and, from the first day, time was made to the elaboration of a document that presented three different perspectives of prevention: individual, local and demographic. This document was called the Gramado Declaration<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> and was widely nationally and internationally disseminated.</p>
    <p>For the consolidation of the document, an online discussion was conducted through e-mail - which, at that time, was used by only 23 participants. From this experience, with messages that began with the "dear friends of the heart" greeting, a social group was started that was named AMICOR, at the suggestion of Eduardo de Azeredo Costa.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> In the course of time a website was created, and the AMICOR designation was also used by ProCOR, released two months later, during the Third International Conference on Preventive Cardiology, on the initiative of Professor Bernard Lown (Boston, USA). The name AMICOR was also adopted for some time by SBC on its website, under the name ProCOR / AMICOR, and later in 2004, as a blog named AMICOR.</p>
    <p>Since then, much has happened, in terms of Brazilian public health. However, ischemic heart disease remains the main cause of morbidity and mortality in Brazil<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref>, and social inequalities continue to have direct and indirect impact on early mortality due to cardiovascular diseases in our country.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref> In the beginning of 2017, when the Declaration Of Gramado completes 20 years, some evils that affect Brazilian public health show that there is much to be done in the short, medium and long term to face with major achievement the overwhelming burden of cardiovascular disease in Brazil.</p>
    <p>On the other hand, as it was already evident in the Seminar and it is increasingly clear nowadays, that cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by public health actions that involve the control of risk factors, as well as by the optimized clinical management of patients. When checking the website of the Global Burden of Disease, it is observed that the mortality standardized by cardiovascular diseases in Brazil from 1995 to 2015 fell by 36%.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> Recent calculations using slightly different methodology suggest even greater decline - over 2% per year.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> This reduction can be observed in different Brazilian studies, in various contexts and age groups.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">15</xref>
		</p>
    <p>It is always difficult to assign causes for changes in disease incidence at the population level. However, improvements such as those that have been seen are, in part, the result of thousands of small gains from multiple actions and actors in the health sector. We would like to consider that the Gramado Seminar, held in the distant year of 1997, was one of these actions and may have contributed to the advances of practical impact seen in the cardiovascular health of the population.</p>
    <p>The reduction of cardiovascular diseases in Brazil and in the world is a complex task that depends on numerous agents and continuous effort. Thus, in 2012, was published in the <italic>Brazilian Cardiology Archives</italic> the "Carta do Rio de Janeiro",<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">16</xref> prepared under the auspices of SBC during the III Brazil Prevent / I Latin America Prevent , endorsing the overall target of 25% reduction in early mortality from noncommunicable diseases up to 2025, set out in the World Health Assembly (WHA). The letter was signed by SBC, the <italic>Sociedad Interamericana de Cardiologia</italic>, the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiology and the World Heart Federation, and has made concrete decisions on how to achieve global goals.</p>
    <p>Among these deliberations, many could already be observed as fundamental since the Gramado Declaration, such as "Implementing actions to acquire epidemiological information, including mortality and cardiovascular morbidity, execution and maintenance of existing registries in some of the signatories, aiming at development of strategies that promote the planning of health actions" and "Create an international permanent discussion forum to monitor the actions aimed at prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Cardiovascular risk factors in Latin America ", of which the AMICOR group could be considered an embryo.</p>
    <p>As stated at the end of the Gramado Declaration.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> "Finally, despite the enormous scientific and technological advances already achieved or prospective in cardiology, it is increasingly necessary to construct a paradigm of health and disease that allows the benefit of such achievements to the entire population. Therefore, a reform in medical education and education of other health professionals is necessary, along with a broad discussion in which popular culture participates, contributing to the evolution of the assistance model, from the traditional biomedical to the biopsychosocial, with emphasis In health and not only in disease".</p>
    <p>Thus, it is up to all of us to maintain the mobilization for effective and evidence-based cardiovascular prevention, taking into account the values of society. Actions such as the Brazilian Seminar, with in-depth discussion of relevant topics and strategic objectives, can multiply and have a significant impact in the long run.</p>
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        <article-title>Declara&#231;&#227;o de Gramado: o Impacto de 20 Anos de Preven&#231;&#227;o Cardiovascular</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Achutti</surname>
            <given-names>Aloyzio</given-names>
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        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Lucia Pellanda</bold> &#8226; Av. Princesa Isabel, 370, 3&#186; andar. CEP 99620-000, Santana, Porto Alegre, RS - Brasil. E-mail: <email>pellanda.pesquisa@gmail.com</email>
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      <p>De 1&#186; a 10 de maio de 1997, realizou-se, na cidade de Gramado (RS), o Primeiro Semin&#225;rio Brasileiro de Epidemiologia Cardiovascular,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> nos moldes em que a Federa&#231;&#227;o Mundial de Cardiologia vinha promovendo em v&#225;rias partes do mundo desde 1968 com o t&#237;tulo <italic>Semin&#225;rios Did&#225;ticos Internacionais de Dez Dias sobre Epidemiologia Cardiovascular e Preven&#231;&#227;o</italic>.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>
			</p>
      <p>A iniciativa partiu da Assessoria Cient&#237;fica da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) e do Departamento de Cardiologia Cl&#237;nica e do Comit&#234; de Epidemiologia e Sa&#250;de P&#250;blica da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC), sob patroc&#237;nio da Coordena&#231;&#227;o de Aperfei&#231;oamento de Pessoal de N&#237;vel Superior (CAPES), da <italic>World Heart Federation</italic> (na &#233;poca ainda chamada <italic>International Society and Federation of Cardiology</italic>) e da Funda&#231;&#227;o Interamericana do Cora&#231;&#227;o.</p>
      <p>Junto aos dois coordenadores, Aloyzio Achutti e Bruce Duncan, v&#225;rios professores nacionais (Annick Fontbonne, Eduardo de Azeredo Costa, Em&#237;lio Moriguchi, Jorge Pinto Ribeiro, Maria In&#234;s Reinert Azambuja, Maria In&#234;s Schmidt, Paulo Lotufo, Rosely Sichieri e S&#233;rgio Bassanesi), e tr&#234;s convidados internacionais (Teri Manolio, Diretor de Epidemiologia e Biometria do <italic>National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute</italic>; Ulrich Grueninger, chefe de Pesquisa e Educa&#231;&#227;o M&#233;dica do <italic>Swiss Federal Office of Public Health</italic>; e Woody Chambless, do Departamento de Bioestat&#237;stica da <italic>University of North Carolina</italic>) ministraram as atividades. Os 40 participantes eram de 10 Estados brasileiros.</p>
      <p>Al&#233;m de conceitos b&#225;sicos de epidemiologia e estat&#237;stica, e de t&#243;picos relacionados &#224; etiologia e &#224; preven&#231;&#227;o das doen&#231;as cardiovasculares, fizeram parte do programa temas que, embora atualmente consagrados, eram novos no Brasil naquele momento, como medicina baseada em evid&#234;ncias e revis&#227;o sistem&#225;tica/metan&#225;lise. Em &#233;poca do in&#237;cio da implanta&#231;&#227;o do Sistema &#218;nico de Sa&#250;de (SUS) e da preocupa&#231;&#227;o com as doen&#231;as cr&#244;nicas n&#227;o transmiss&#237;veis como problema de sa&#250;de p&#250;blica, este encontro singular capacitou e incentivou l&#237;deres brasileiros no campo de preven&#231;&#227;o cardiovascular &#8722; v&#225;rios dos quais posteriormente assumiram posi&#231;&#245;es de lideran&#231;a nacional. Houve amplo debate e, desde o primeiro dia, dedicou-se um tempo para a elabora&#231;&#227;o de um documento que apresentou tr&#234;s diferentes perspectivas de preven&#231;&#227;o: individual, local e populacional. Este documento recebeu a denomina&#231;&#227;o de Declara&#231;&#227;o de Gramado<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> e teve ampla divulga&#231;&#227;o nacional e internacional.</p>
      <p>Para a consolida&#231;&#227;o do documento, foi realizada uma discuss&#227;o pela internet, por meio de e-mail &#8722; o qual, naquela ocasi&#227;o, era usado por somente 23 dos participantes. A partir desta experi&#234;ncia, com mensagens que come&#231;avam com a sauda&#231;&#227;o "prezados amigos do cora&#231;&#227;o", teve in&#237;cio um grupo social que foi denominado AMICOR, por sugest&#227;o de Eduardo de Azeredo Costa.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> No decorrer do tempo, criou-se um site, e a designa&#231;&#227;o AMICOR tamb&#233;m foi utilizada pela ProCOR, lan&#231;ada 2 meses depois, durante a Terceira Confer&#234;ncia Internacional sobre Cardiologia Preventiva, por iniciativa do Professor Bernard Lown (Boston, Estados Unidos). O nome AMICOR tamb&#233;m foi adotado durante algum tempo pela SBC em seu site, com o nome de ProCOR/AMICOR, e posteriormente em 2004, como um <italic>blog</italic> de nome AMICOR.</p>
      <p>De l&#225; para c&#225;, muita coisa aconteceu, em termos de sa&#250;de p&#250;blica brasileira. No entanto, a doen&#231;a isqu&#234;mica do cora&#231;&#227;o se mant&#233;m como principal causa de morbimortalidade no Brasil,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> e as desigualdades sociais continuam tendo enorme impacto direto na mortalidade precoce por doen&#231;as cardiovasculares em nosso pa&#237;s.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref> Em pleno in&#237;cio de 2017, quando a Declara&#231;&#227;o de Gramado completa 20 anos, algumas mazelas que acometem a sa&#250;de p&#250;blica brasileira evidenciam que h&#225; muito a ser feito a curto, m&#233;dio e longo prazo, para enfrentar com maior &#234;xito a carga avassaladora da doen&#231;a cardiovascular no Brasil.</p>
      <p>Por outro lado, como j&#225; estava evidente no Semin&#225;rio e &#233; cada vez mais claro hoje, na maioria das vezes, as doen&#231;as cardiovasculares podem ser prevenidas por a&#231;&#245;es de sa&#250;de p&#250;blica que envolvem o controle de fatores de risco, assim como pelo manejo cl&#237;nico otimizado dos pacientes. Ao se conferir o site do <italic>Global Burden of Disease</italic>, observa-se que a mortalidade padronizada pelas doen&#231;as cardiovasculares no Brasil de 1995 para 2015 caiu 36%.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> C&#225;lculos recentes utilizando metodologia levemente diferente sugerem at&#233; decl&#237;nio maior &#8722; acima de 2% ao ano.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref> Esta redu&#231;&#227;o pode ser observada em diferentes estudos brasileiros, em v&#225;rios contextos e faixas et&#225;rias.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">15</xref>
			</p>
      <p>Atribuir causas para mudan&#231;as na incid&#234;ncia da doen&#231;a ao n&#237;vel populacional &#233; sempre dif&#237;cil. No entanto, melhoras como as que foram vistas certamente s&#227;o em parte resultado de milhares de pequenos avan&#231;os decorrentes de m&#250;ltiplas a&#231;&#245;es e atores no setor de sa&#250;de. Gostar&#237;amos de considerar que o Semin&#225;rio de Gramado, realizado no j&#225; long&#237;nquo ano de 1997, foi uma destas a&#231;&#245;es e que pode ter contribu&#237;do para os avan&#231;os de impacto pr&#225;tico vistos na sa&#250;de cardiovascular da popula&#231;&#227;o.</p>
      <p>A redu&#231;&#227;o das doen&#231;as cardiovasculares no Brasil e no mundo &#233; uma tarefa complexa, que depende de in&#250;meros agentes e de um esfor&#231;o continuado. Assim, em 2012, foi publicada, nos <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> a "Carta do Rio de Janeiro",<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">16</xref> elaborada sob os ausp&#237;cios da SBC durante o <italic>III Brasil Prevent/I Am&#233;rica Latina Prevent</italic>, referendando a meta global de redu&#231;&#227;o de 25% na mortalidade precoce por doen&#231;as n&#227;o transmiss&#237;veis at&#233; 2025, estabelecida na <italic>World Health Assembly</italic> (WHA). A carta foi assinada pela SBC, <italic>Sociedad Interamericana de Cardiologia, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology</italic> e <italic>World Heart Federation</italic>, e avan&#231;ou em estabelecer delibera&#231;&#245;es de a&#231;&#245;es concretas para atingir metas globais.</p>
      <p>Entre estas delibera&#231;&#245;es, muitas j&#225; podiam ser observadas como fundamentais desde a Declara&#231;&#227;o de Gramado, como "Implementar a&#231;&#245;es para aquisi&#231;&#227;o de informa&#231;&#227;o epidemiol&#243;gica, incluindo mortalidade e morbidade cardiovascular, execu&#231;&#227;o e manuten&#231;&#227;o de registros j&#225; existentes em alguns dos signat&#225;rios, visando o desenvolvimento de estrat&#233;gias que promovam o planejamento das a&#231;&#245;es de sa&#250;de" e "Criar um f&#243;rum internacional de discuss&#227;o permanente para monitorar as a&#231;&#245;es voltadas para preven&#231;&#227;o, diagn&#243;stico e tratamento dos fatores de risco cardiovascular na Am&#233;rica Latina", do qual o grupo AMICOR poderia ser considerado um embri&#227;o.</p>
      <p>Como consta no final da Declara&#231;&#227;o do Gramado:<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> "Por fim, mesmo tendo em vista os enormes avan&#231;os cient&#237;ficos e tecnol&#243;gicos j&#225; alcan&#231;ados ou em perspectiva na cardiologia, &#233; cada vez mais necess&#225;ria a constru&#231;&#227;o de um paradigma de sa&#250;de e doen&#231;a que viabilize o benef&#237;cio de tais conquistas a toda a popula&#231;&#227;o. Para tanto, se fazem necess&#225;rias uma reforma na educa&#231;&#227;o m&#233;dica e na educa&#231;&#227;o dos demais profissionais da sa&#250;de, paralelamente a uma ampla discuss&#227;o na qual participe a cultura popular, contribuindo para a evolu&#231;&#227;o do modelo assistencial, do tradicional biom&#233;dico, para o biopsicosocial, com &#234;nfase na sa&#250;de e n&#227;o somente na doen&#231;a".</p>
      <p>Assim, cabe a todos n&#243;s manter a mobiliza&#231;&#227;o por uma preven&#231;&#227;o cardiovascular efetiva e baseada em evid&#234;ncias, considerando os valores da sociedade. A&#231;&#245;es como a do <italic>Semin&#225;rio Brasileiro</italic>, com discuss&#227;o profunda de t&#243;picos relevantes e objetivos estrat&#233;gicos, podem se multiplicar e ter impacto significativo no longo prazo.</p>
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