Update Course Programme

AEPC UPDATE COURSE IN PORTO, 2024

Prevention and Sports: Shaping Healthy Hearts

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UPDATE COURSE PROGRAMME (Wednesday, 8 May 2024)

Morning Programme: Preventive pediatric cardiology
08:00	Registration
08:30	Opening welcome	*Silvia Alvares, Rui Anjos, Guido Pieles*
Chairs: Silvia Alvares, Felicia Nordenstam (+ Henk Schipper, online moderator)
08:45	Keynote lecture
	Preventive pediatric cardiology: are we in the blocks, ready to go?	*Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz*
09:30	Lecture
	Start early, live longer: childhood as the key to cardiovascular health	*Henk Schipper*
10:00	Case studies: A guideline-based approach
	1) Dyslipidaemia: why and when to screen, and how to treat	*Guilherme Carvalho Lourenco*
	2) Hypertension: repaired CHD and still hypertension	*Vesna Herceg- Čavrak*
	3) Physical activity: public health versus focused physical activity programs	*Jan Müller*
11:00	Coffee Break
Chairs: Rui Anjos, Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz (+ Felicia Nordenstam, online moderator)
11:30	Hot topics in preventive pediatric cardiology
	Set-up: two perspectives, followed by discussion with audience
	1) Lifestyle change: A realistic scenario? Move more and eat less?	*Frida Dangart & Erica van den Akker (online)*
	2) Why diet, if there are GLP1 agonists around?	*Erica van den Akker (online) & Frida Dangart*
12:30	Lunch in the park - Walk & talk, local highlights
Afternoon Programme: Sports as prevention in CHD
Chairs: Doris Ehringer, Guido Pieles, Helder Dores (+ Jan Müller, online moderator)
13:30	Sports as prevention in children with CHD: Benefits and risks	*Guido Pieles & Peter Fritsch*
14:15	Case studies: a guideline-based approach
	1) TGA and jumping high	*Nuno Duarte*
	2) Fallot and football	*Melina Winkler*
	3) Cardiac rehabilitation in children with CHD: Does intensity matter?	*Craig Williams & Arend van Deutekom*
15:15	Wrapping up - quiz	*Felicia Nordenstam & Henk Schipper (+ Jan Mueller)*
	Prevention - Better safe than sorry
15:40	Closure	*Silvia Alvares & Rui Anjos*

Scientific Programme