The Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics area at the CNIC is committed to performing high-quality and high-impact population research on the environmental, individual and genetic risk factors that are causally related to cardiovascular disease.

Cardiovascular Epidemiology studies the distribution of cardiovascular diseases and their genetic, environmental, lifestyle, and social determinants in human populations. Epidemiologic methods are designed to obtain unbiased evidence to test scientific hypotheses and to characterize the health status of human populations. Epidemiological studies integrate basic science, clinical data, and population-level factors to better understand the occurrence, the natural history, and the prognosis of cardiovascular disease. Epidemiologic data provide the quantitative foundation needed in clinical cardiovascular research, and constitute the basis for the public health campaigns to control and eliminate cardiovascular diseases.

The Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics area aims to:

• Improve our understanding of the etiology of cardiovascular disease and its consequences in human populations
• Improve and evaluate strategies for primary prevention, secondary prevention, and disease management
• Translate epidemiologic discoveries into clinical practice and public health policy and to disseminate this information to the general population
• Train future leaders in cardiovascular clinical epidemiology, disease prevention, health promotion, and clinical research
• Research projects in our department are designed to understand the incidence, natural history, and prognosis of cardiovascular disease in the Spanish population. The Department is currently involved in several population-based studies in collaboration with other national and international research groups working in this field. For more information visit the projects section.

Training programs are developed in collaboration with the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.