# 2019 ACC/AHA guideline on the primary prevention of CVD

Guideline · id `cardio:guideline-acc-aha-2019-primary-prevention` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `73130c34862e2d06` (public)

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Also called: 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Browse, organ or system: Heart; Blood vessels  
Browse, condition area: Risk and prevention  

## In plain language

The 2019 guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association on the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. PubMed holds no abstract for it, so this page gives only the title and the publication details. What the guideline advises on risk assessment, lifestyle or preventive medicines was not read.

## Technical summary

Circulation 2019;140(11):e596-e646, doi 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000678, PMID 30879355. Electronic publication 2019-03-17. A report of the ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. PubMed lists three corrections (2019-09-10, 2020-01-28 and 2020-04-21); their text was not read. A PMC author manuscript (PMC7734661) exists but is not in the PMC Open Access subset, so it was not fetched. Later guidance on some of its topics exists in this atlas, but no edition link is recorded.

## Connected pages

- Co-issuer, with the American Heart Association (title): American College of Cardiology (`core:acc`)
- Co-issuer, with the American College of Cardiology (title): American Heart Association (`core:aha`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 2d4eca9bd736a3d17b2296cfab43381261db7e09421d19b145c1066d838e347c
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-15