Cardiology is a medical discipline that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular illnesses, which affect the heart, blood vessels, and circulatory system. These ailments encompass coronary heart disease (disease of heart’s blood vessels), cardiac arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeat), congestive heart failure (heart that cannot keep up with its workload), hypertension (high blood pressure), cardiometabolic disease (spectrum of conditions that involve heart and metabolism), dyslipidemia (irregular blood lipid levels), valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies (heart muscle diseases). 

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) account for 42.5% of all deaths each year in the Europe, resulting in approximately 10,000 deaths each day. In eastern Europe and central Asia, the likelihood of dying prematurely (between the ages of 30 and 69) from cardiovascular diseases is over five times higher compared to western Europe. Specifically, the mortality rate is 15.1% in eastern Europe, 14.8% in central Asia, and just 2.9% in western Europe.