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Primary prevention programs combining population-wide risk behavior reduction and targeted treatment of high-risk individuals are necessary to reduce the global burden of coronary heart disease.
This review highlights the need for a paradigm shift integrating primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease through combined population-wide and high-risk individual approaches.
Supports combined CHD prevention strategies; leaves open need for prospective trials before practice change.
During the second part of the twentieth century, research advances caused a substantial decline in the rate of coronary heart disease. The decline lasted from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s and occurred primarily in Western countries. However, an unfavourable trend in coronary heart disease related mortality has gradually developed during the 1990s, with cardiovascular diseases anticipated to remain the main cause of overall mortality for the foreseeable future. The present paper aims at analyzing the current status of the main determinants of population-wide coronary heart disease prevention.
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Cornel Pater (2001) conducted a review in Coronary heart disease. Primary prevention strategies was evaluated. Primary prevention programs combining population-wide risk behavior reduction and targeted treatment of high-risk individuals are necessary to reduce the global burden of coronary heart disease.
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