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Jaap W. Deckers

Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Publications -  273
Citations -  39450

Jaap W. Deckers is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Myocardial infarction & Heart failure. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 268 publications receiving 37766 citations. Previous affiliations of Jaap W. Deckers include European Society of Cardiology & Hannover Medical School.

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European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force of European and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice.

TL;DR: It is of great importance that guidelines and recommendations are presented in formats that are easily interpreted, and their implementation programmes must also be well conducted.
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Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary. The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

TL;DR: Guidelines and Expert Consensus documents aim to present management and recommendations based on all of the relevant evidence on a particular subject in order to help physicians to select the best possible management strategies for the individual patient, suffering from a specific condition, taking into account not only the impact on outcome, but also the risk benefit ratio of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.