Primary Prevention Of Heart Risk Factors Trumps Secondary Prevention – BMJ
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Primary prevention strategies to reduce the CHD risk factors of smoking, high cholesterol and hypertension "achieved a four-fold larger reduction in deaths" compared to secondary prevention over a twenty-year period in the UK, according to a British Medical Journal study
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