| Title | Cholesterol reduction to prevent CAD. What do the data show? | | Author(s) | Sorrentino MJ | | Institution | Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 5841 S Maryland, MC 6080, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. msorrent@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu | | Source | Postgrad Med 2000 Dec; 108(7):40-2, 45-6, 49-52. | | MeSH | Cause of Death
Cholesterol
Coronary Disease
Diabetes Complications
Evidence-Based Medicine
Exercise
Family Practice
Female
Humans
Hypercholesterolemia
Hypertension
Life Style
Male
Obesity
Physician's Role
Primary Health Care
Primary Prevention
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Smoking
United States
| | Abstract | Primary prevention of heart disease should be an important goal of every primary care physician. All patients should undergo careful assessment of future risk and should be counseled about lifestyle modification. Patients at high risk can further benefit from cautious use of lipid-lowering drugs, which have been shown to be effective in preventing cardiac events without substantially increasing risk of noncardiac morbidity and mortality. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
Review
| | PubMed ID | 11126142 |
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