Similarities and differences between European and United States guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias.

Professor Željko Reiner, FRCP (London), FESC, FACC gained his MD degree in 1976 from Zagreb University, Croatia. He also holds a PhD degree from Zagreb University. Currently, he is the head of the Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb and the School of Medicine, Zagreb University. He has held many positions in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) and was a member of the World Heart Organisation Executive Board in Geneva, where he was representing Europe. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals (JACC, Nature Rev Cardiol, etc.) and is a reviewer for a number of journals (Lancet, Eur Heart J, etc.). Besides publishing many papers and books, he is first author of the ESC/EAS European guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias and one of the authors of the last two Joint European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention. Professor Reiner’s research has focused on lipidology and preventive cardiology.