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9780192623973

Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease An Evidence-based Approach

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192623973

  • ISBN10:

    0192623974

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-07-18
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The editors have bridged the gap between scientific rigour and accessibility to produce a book which helps members of the primary health care team to fulfil their obligation to identify people with cardiovascular risk factors among their patients and set up clinics to help reduce that risk. After chapters on how to recognize the risk factors they are given practical methods of risk reduction and guidelines for implementation in practice.

Table of Contents

Evidence for reducible risk
Smoking
Hypertension
Lipids and lipoproteins
Nutrition
Exercise
Alcohol
Personality and psychological environment
Diabetes
Social Deprivation
Hormone replacement therapy
Haemostasis
Antioxidants
Prevention of Stroke
Secondary prevention
Multiple risk
Evidence for the effectiveness of implementation
Community-based interventions
Individual interventions and behaviour change
Taking the initiative: strategies and implications
Issues in Measurement
Screening policy
Implementation
The population and individual strategies
Preparing the practice
Principles of patient management
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