SNAPSHOT epidemiological program

Description

SNAPSHOT is a multinational, epidemiological, cross-sectional study, with the objectives to investigate assessment of cardiovascular risk and control of blood pressure, LDL-cholesterol, and glycated hemoglobin.

Program launch date

2021-ongoing

Responsible entity

Academic Institutions, SEARCH-VASC Centre of Excellence in Research, Servier Pharma

Available results and quality metrics

Comparative data between different countries. For Romania, comparative data between different years. It proved a low control of blood pressure (less than 25%) and LDL-cholesterol (less than 12%), and the difficulty of controlling multiple targets in the same patient (in less than 3%), associated with an underestimated cardiovascular risk assessment in half of the patients.

Limitations / comments

Better implementation of use of SCORE2/SCORE2-OP in clinical practice, and better implementation of guidelines recommendations.