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Cardiovascular disease remains a major public health concern, with evidence from the Bogalusa Heart Study suggesting that prevention efforts may need to begin in childhood.
Discusses the importance of early cardiovascular disease prevention, referencing evidence that risk factors begin in childhood.
Early in the next century, cardiovascular disease will probably be the number-one killer worldwide.1 Despite important successes in the past 30 years, unfavorable trends in some coronary risk factors may have contributed to a slowing of the rate of decline in age-adjusted mortality from cardiovascular disease in the United States. Furthermore, given the aging of the population, cardiovascular disease will remain an important public health concern well into the next century even if age-adjusted death rates continue to decline. In this issue of the Journal, Berenson et al.2 contribute important evidence from the Bogalusa Heart Study that even in childhood . . .
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J. Michael Gaziano (1998) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease remains a major public health concern, with evidence from the Bogalusa Heart Study suggesting that prevention efforts may need to begin in childhood.
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