Cardoiovascular epidemiology : background and principles of cardiovascular disease prevention -- From epidemiological risk to clinical practice by way of statistics -- a personal view -- Endpoints, mortality and morbidity -- Genetics, family history and risk estimation in the young -- Management of cardiovascular risk in the older person -- Overweight, physical inactivity, insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk -- Estimation of cardiovascular risk : close enough is not good enough -- New biomarkers of cardiovascular disease -- Risk in those with established disease -- Socioeconomic aspects of risk estimation -- Risk estimation systems in clinical use : SCORE, HeartScore and the framingham system -- Epidemiological research and preventive cardiology : lessons from Framingham -- Electronic and interactive risk estimation -- Management of specific risk factors -- lipids -- Management of specific risk factors -- hypertension -- Heart rate as a risk factor -- Cardiovascular risk estimation and management -- concluding remarks.