Skip Navigation

European Heart Journal 2004 25(6):457-458; doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2004.02.004
Copyright © 2004 by the European Society of Cardiology.
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Related articles in EHJ
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Vartiainen, E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Vartiainen, E.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Editorial

A lot more can be done to prevent cardiovascular diseases

Erkki Vartiainen

Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public health Institute, Helsinki, Finland

E-mail address: erkki.vartiainen@ktl.fi

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

This editorial refers to "Evaluating the impact of population and high-risk strategies for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease"1 by Emberson et al. on page 484

The potential to prevent cardiovascular diseases is still seriously underused in most countries. Present analyses show that mortality from cardiovascular diseases can be reduced by 59% by reducing mean blood pressure and serum cholesterol 15%. Treating those who are in a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?

Related articles in EHJ:

Evaluating the impact of population and high-risk strategies for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
Jonathan Emberson, Peter Whincup, Richard Morris, Mary Walker, and Shah Ebrahim
EHJ 2004 25: 484-491. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text]