Description
Project MOST (in English "BRIDGE") was planned like a part of National Cardiovascular Prevention Program. Background for this project raised from findings in cross-sectional studies in Slovakia performed in 1990-2006. Results of these studies clearly shown very low awareness of cardiovascular risk factors, e.g. only 50% of population have information about their blood pressure levels and only about 20% of Slovaks passed lipid levels examination. The main target of the project was to create bridge between scientific knowledge of importance to have very well controlled blood pressure and lipid profile and very bad situation in Slovak population (many people not informed about risk factors or disease, some of them informed, but not satisfactory treated and quite high number are aware of disease but finally were not treated). Slovak Society of Cardiology started this project in September 2007 during two important events - European Society of Cardiology Congress in Vienna and Slovak Society of Cardiology Congress in Bratislava. National campaign in every bigger city resulted in increasing number of people who would like to know their blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol level. People were educated by physicians about all important cardiovascular risk factors and level of education seems to have increasing trend up to year 2018. Whole population campaign via PR agencies, media, etc.Program launch date
2007-2018Responsible entity
Sponsors from various fields of business, media, etc.Available results and quality metrics
Not available. Due to small numbers of examined patients it was possible just to show some positive trends - bigger awareness of risk factors in the population, educational campaign seems to be successful, but again, not properly validated.Limitations / comments
Very limited resources, despite professional effort of Slovak Heart Donation and Slovak Society of Cardiology. Very low support by government.