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March 11, 2000BMJ

Joint British recommendations on prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice: summary

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Population

Patients with established coronary heart disease, other major atherosclerotic disease, or healthy people at…

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Authors

BSBritish Cardiac Society

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Implication

Enables standardized UK CHD prevention in practice; extends prior joint recommendations with integrated risk charts.

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Population

Patients with established coronary heart disease, other major atherosclerotic disease, or healthy people at high risk of developing CHD (absolute CHD risk >15% over 10 years).

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Intervention

Lifestyle modifications, blood pressure control, lipid-lowering therapy, and cardioprotective drugs (aspirin, beta-blockers, statins, ACE inhibitors, anticoagulants).

Provides joint British recommendations and risk prediction charts for the primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice.

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British Cardiac Society (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a85bb504f2eb4dbc91e6cec https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7236.705

Topics

Hypertension management

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