Residual Risk Reduction initiative (R3i)

"Noted cardiologists from North America, Europe, Asia and Japan recently launched a unique global program designed to evaluate and reduce the excess risk of heart attack and other related diseases. The program, Residual Risk Reduction initiative (R3i), also aims to combat stroke, kidney disease, vision loss and non-traumatic limb amputation that exist in many patients with heart ailment. It was launched in the recent 2008 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana"