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Does primary prevention reduce coronary mortality more than secondary prevention?
Does primary prevention reduce coronary mortality more than secondary prevention?
Primary prevention strategies contributed more significantly to the decline in coronary mortality in Sweden from 1986 to 2002 compared to secondary prevention.
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Primary prevention may contribute more to coronary mortality declines than secondary prevention; leaves open causality and generalizability beyond this Swedish cohort.
The largest effects on mortality came from primary prevention, giving markedly larger mortality reductions than secondary prevention.
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Björck et al. (2015) studied this question.
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