Prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice: Recommendations of the Second Joint Task Force of European and other Societies on Coronary Prevention1European Society of Cardiology, European Atherosclerosis Society, European Society of Hypertension, International Society of Behavioural Medicine, European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine, European Heart Network.1,2Published simultaneously in the European Heart Journal 1998;19:1434–1503 and the Journal of Hypertension (Summary only) 1998;16(10).2
AtherosclerosisPublished 1 October 1998
David Wood, Guy De Backer, Ole Færgeman, Ian D. Graham, Giuseppe Mancia, Kalevi Pyörälà
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The Task Force has summarized the most important clinical issues on coronary heart disease prevention on which there is good agreement in order to give cardiologists and physicians, and other health care professionals, the best possible advice to facilitate their work on coronaryHeart disease prevention.
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Since the first Joint European Societies—European Society of Cardiology, European Atherosclerosis Society and European Society of Hypertension—Task Force recommendations on coronary heart disease prevention in clinical practice were published in 1994 new scientific evidence has emerged in both secondary and primary coronary prevention, particularly in relation to lipid lowering. Therefore, a second Task Force was convened by the three major societies, including professional representatives from behavioural medicine, primary care and the European Heart Network, to revise the recommendations.
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Antichlamydial antibiotics may be useful in therapeutic intervention in addition to standard medication in patients with coronary-artery disease and large-scale trials are needed to confirm these preliminary observations.
The LancetRandomised trial of α-tocopherol and β-carotene supplements on incidence of major coronary events in men with previous myocardial infarction
569 Citations1997J Rapola, Jarmo Virtamo +5 more
The proportion of major coronary events in men with a previous myocardial infarction who smoke was not decreased with either α-tocopherol or β-carotene supplements, but the risk of fatal coronary heart disease increased in the groups that received either β- carotene or the combination of α-ocopherol and β-Carotene; there was a non-significant trend of increased deaths in the α-ococopherol group.
DiabetesNIDDM and Its Metabolic Control Predict Coronary Heart Disease in Elderly Subjects
553 Citations1994Johanna Kuusisto, Leena Mykkänen +2 more
NIDDM and its metabolic control and the duration of diabetes are important predictors ofCHD in elderly subjects, particularly in women, and there was a significant increase in the risk of CHD death and all CHD events in NIDDM subjects with GHbA1c levels higher than 7.0% compared with diabetic subjects with lower GHb a1c.
American Journal of EpidemiologyDo Cardiovascular Risk Factors Explain the Relation between Socioeconomic Status, Risk of All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Mortality, and Acute Myocardial Infarction?
548 Citations1996John Lynch, George A. Kaplan +3 more
These data show how the association between SES and cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality is mediated by known risk factor pathways, but full "explanations" for these associations will need to encompass why these biologic, behavioral, psychologic, and social risk factors are differentially distributed by SES.
Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular BiologyApolipoprotein E Alleles and Risk of Coronary Disease
545 Citations1996Peter W.F. Wilson, Ernst J. Schaefer +2 more
The overall impression is that epsilon 4 is associated with clinical and coronary disease and that results are similar in men and women.
CirculationKuopio Atherosclerosis Prevention Study (KAPS)
544 Citations1995Riitta Salonen, Kristiina Nyyssönen +5 more
These data establish the antiatherogenic effect of LDL-C lowering by pravastatin in hypercholesterolemic men in a primary prevention setting and suggest a greater effect in smokers than in nonsmokers.
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