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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 19, 2009
European Heart Journal 2009 30(9):1027-1029; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp025
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Does surveillance impact on cardiovascular prevention?

Antonio Di Chiara1,* and Diego Vanuzzo2

1 Cardiologia, ASS3 ‘Alto Friuli’, Ospedale di Tolmezzo, Italy
2 Centro Malattie Cardiovascolari, ASS4 ‘Medio Friuli’, Udine, Italy

* Corresponding author. Tel: +39 0432 554449, Fax: +39 0432 554448, Email: dichiara.antonio@aoud.sanita.fvg.it

This editorial refers to ‘Modelling the decreasing coronary heart disease mortality in Sweden between 1986 and 2002’{dagger}, by L. Björck et al., on page 1046

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Many epidemiological projects and clinical trials on determinants of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been conducted to identify risk factors and demonstrate the reversibility of risk through actions directed at their reduction, both in healthy subjects and in patients with established CVDs.

At the international level, the Seven Countries Study identified risk factors common to different cultures, consistent for their importance, predictive power, and frequency among the general population.1 Smoking habit, and a rich diet with consequent high levels of total cholesterol and high blood pressure, were ascertained to be partly responsible for differences in the incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD) between countries.2,3 The WHO's European Collaborative Trial of the multifactorial prevention of CHD demonstrated the reversibility of risk among European populations, through . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Modelling the decreasing coronary heart disease mortality in Sweden between 1986 and 2002
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