The paper provides information on the preparation and first stage of implementation of a programme based on a research project focused on the complex of risk factors participating in the genesis and development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The research project pays particular attention to psychosocial risk factors the part of which in the etiopathogenesis ofCVD was not satisfactorily elucidated, contrary to relevant somato-physiological characteristics. The basis of the described programmeis the implementationofcomprehensive preventiveexaminations incl. psychological examination, associated intervention activities and repeated similar comprehensive examinations after an interval of about two years. For evaluationof the results of these examinationsa scoring systemofCVDriskfactors was developed based on existing experience abroad and in the Czech Republic. This system makes it possible by adding weighted scores to different variables to achieve compatibility of results, to compare the incidence of risk factors in different subjects and population groups and detect inter-, and intrapersonal developmental changes.

        Key words: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) - prevention - complex examination of risk factors - scoring system of CVD risk factors - intervention.