WHF/WHO joint publications

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Avoiding Heart Attacks and Strokes - Don't be a victim, protect yourself!" (2005)

The SuRF Report (Surveillance of Risk Factors) (2003)

ISFC/WHO Statement of Physical Inactivity as a Risk Factor of CVD
WHO Bulletin, 1994, 72(1) 1-4, 583-612

WHO/ISFC Study of Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth(PBDAY Study).
A ten-year multinational collaborative study (1986-1996). WHO/CVD/97.1

Joint WHO/ISFC Meeting on Rheumatic Fever/Rheumatic Heart Disease Control, with emphasis on primary prevention, Geneva, 7-9 September 1994.
WHO/CVD/94.1

Health education material

ISFC/UNESCO/WHO joint collaboration, November 1992

Streptococcal Sore Throat. Rheumatic Fever/Rheumatic Heart Disease. (A reference for physicians and paramedical personnel)

• Sore Throat. What do you do? (A reference for schoolchildren, teachers and parents).
• Angine Streptococcique. Rhumatisme Articulaire Aigu/Cardiopathie Rhumatismale (Brochure à l'intention des médecins et du personnel paramédical).
• Mal de Gorge. Que peux-tu faire? (Brochure à l'intention des enfants, des enseignants et des parents).
• Enfermedad Estreptocóccica de la Garganta. Fiebre Reumática/Cardiopatía Reumática. (Una referencia para médicos y personal paramédico)
• Mal de Garganta. ? Qué puedes hacer? (Un folleto para escolares, profesores, padres y madres).

Standardisation of Nomenclature, Diagnostic Criteria and Methods

WHO/ISFC Joint Programme of Task Forces

Published reports

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Cardiac Arrhythmias

• Definition of terms related to Cardiac Rhythm - American Heart Journal, Vol. 95, 1978, 796-806 - European Journal of Cardiology, 1978, 8/2, 127-144
• Nomenclature et critères pour le diagnostic des cardiopathies ischèmiques - Arch. Mal. Coeur, no. 3, pp. 321-323 - Kardiologie (Moscow), Volume 20, 1980, pp 111-120 (Russian translation)
• Classification of Cardiac Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances - American Heart Journal, Vol. 98, 1979, 263-267

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Standardization of Clinical Nomenclature and Criteria for Diagnosis of Ischaemic Heart Disease

• Nomenclature and Criteria for Diagnosis of Ischaemic Heart Disease - Circulation, 1979, Vol. 59, No. 3, 607-609

ISFC/WHO Task Force on the Definition and Classification of Cardiomyopathies

• Definition and Classification of Cardiomyopathies- British Heart Journal, 1980, Vol. 44, No. 6, 672-673
• Cardiomyopathies. Report of a WHO Expert Committee- WHO Technical Report Series No. 697, WHO, Geneva 1984 - Heartbeat, No. 2, June 1981
• Update of the TF report -Circulation 1996, 93: 341-342 - Heartbeat, No. 2, April 1996

ISFC/WHO Task Force on M-Mode Echocardiography

• Report of the ISFC/WHO Task Force on Recommendations for Standardisation of Measurements from M-Mode Echocardiograms - Circulation, 69:854A-857A, 1984 - Heartbeat, No. 2, September 1984

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Nuclear Cardiology

• Report of the ISFC/WHO Task Force on Nuclear Cardiology - European Heart Journal (1984)5, 850-863 - Circulation, 70: 768a-781a, 1984 - Arch. Mal Coeur, 1985, No. 7 (French translation) - Arch. Insti. Cardiol. Mex., 54:499-514, 1984 (Spanish translation)
• Range of normal values for left and right ventricular ejection fraction at rest and during exercise assessed by radionuclide angiocardiography - European Heart Journal (1985)6, 647-655

ISFC/WHO Task Force on P-QRS-T Morphology

• Criteria for Intraventricular Conduction Disturbances and Pre-excitation (P-QRS-T Morphology) - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 5, No. 6, June 1985: 1261-1275

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Nomenclature of Coronary Arteriograms

• Report of the WHO/ISFC Task Force on Nomenclature of Coronary Arteriograms (First Report of Task Force) Circulation, 74:451A-455A, 1986.
• Report of WHO/ISFC Task Force on Coronary Arteriograms and Coronary Interventions. (Second Report of Task Force) - Circulation, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp 895A, April 1987
• Report of the ISFC/WHO Task Force on Structure and Function of Small Coronary Arteries in Health and Disease (Third Report of Task Force) - Journal of the American College of Cardiology 15:511-12. 1990.

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Haemodynamics

• Report of the WHO/ISFC Task Force on Haemodynamics - Circulatory Variables Measured by Invasive Techniques - European Heart Journal, Volume 6, Supplement C, October 1985.

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Coronary Angioplasty

• Report of the Joint ISFC/WHO Task Force on Coronary Angioplasty - European Heart Journal (1988) 9, 1034-1045 - Circulation, September 1988, Vol. 78:3, 780-789 - Arch Inst Cardiol Mix, Vol 58.339-350, 1988 (Spanish translation) - Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 51/3: 275-285, 1988 (Portuguese translation)

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Pulmonary Embolism

• Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Pulmonary Embolism - JAMA, October 1992, Vol. 268:13, 1727-1733.

ISFC/WHO Task Force on Myocardial Reperfusion

Report of the ISFC/WHO Task Force on Myocardial Reperfusion: Reperfusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction - Circulation, October 1994, Vol. 90:4, 2091-2101