Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2017; 108(3): 193-194
Gramado Declaration: The Impact of 20 Years of Cardiovascular Prevention
DOI: 10.5935/abc.20170040
From May 1st to 10th, 1997, the First Brazilian Seminar on Cardiovascular Epidemiology, 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.
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 Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC), under the auspices of the Coordination of Higher Education for Personal Development (CAPES), the World Heart Federation (at that time still called the International Society and Federation of Cardiology) and the Inter-American Heart Foundation.
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