Shiraz to host 3rd Intl. Preventive Cardiology Congress

SHIRAZ, Sep. 29 (MNA) – The Third International Preventive Cardiology Congress will open in Shiraz in October 3-5. The head of Cardiovascular Research Center Mohammad Javad Zibaeenezhad in Shiraz University of Medical Science who was speaking in a press conference on Sunday in the congress venue in Shiraz Pars Hotel in the city’s famous Darvazeh Quran, told that the opening ceremony would be held Friday October 3 evening. “The second and third day of the congress will fully feature workshops, oral representations and poster representations,” he added. “We received 185 posters and oral representations; 20 people will orally represent in nursery; 67 people will represent in different fields of medicine; and 65 others will be posters,” Zibaeenezhad said. “The conference will award a prize worth of $775 for the best applied research works focused on coronary-artery disease prevention.” “On the sidelines of the congress, medical companies will exhibit their products in special pavilions to the interested public; the Congress seeks to address the latest preventive measures for heart strokes, and we have the honor to be among the first Middle Eastern institutions focusing attempts on coronary-artery diseases,” he said, believing that the congress was unique in its sort. “Oral representations and posters will revolve around effective factors on heart attacks including nutritional habits and primary and secondary preventions; sport therapy and related effects in prevention; we predict to host representations which would contribute significantly to traditional medicine, stem cells, genetics, angioplasty, surgery, and its impact on control of risk factors of hypertension, obesity, diabetes and sedentary living habits,” detailed the head of the congress. “By primary prevention, we mean practices provisioned to prevent heart attacks; secondary prevention implies prevention of second-time attacks or prevention of death in patients with heart attack," stated he and asserted that "prominent scholars, Iranian or international, will deliver speeches in the congress.”