Key result
Pilot public-health heart program yields no definitive impact on cardiovascular disease at one year.
Why the study?
Methods to reduce cardiovascular disease and conserve cardiac function were not established and required evaluation through a public-health pilot study.
No conclusions from one-year pilot; leaves open whether community heart programs affect cardiovascular outcomes.
IN MAY, 1948, the Massachusetts Medical Society endorsed in principle a pilot study of the public-health aspects of heart disease.1 The study was to be conducted in Newton under the joint sponsorship of the Newton Health Department, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the United States Public Health Service.2 Its objectives were to determine methods of helping to reduce cardiovascular disease and conserve cardiac function.A period of a year does not allow sufficient time to draw definite conclusions or submit findings for qualitative or quantitative analysis. However, it does seem fitting to report to the Massachusetts Medical Society . . .
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Kattwinkel et al. (1949) studied Cardiovascular disease. Public-health heart program was evaluated on Methods of helping to reduce cardiovascular disease and conserve cardiac function. A one-year pilot public-health heart program in Newton, Massachusetts, yielded no quantitative findings, as the duration was insufficient to draw definite conclusions.
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