Prevention of coronary heart disease

Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease.

SIR,-Surgeon Captain T L Cleave and Dr W W Yellowlees (29 May, p 1340) both remain unaware of, or choose to, ignore, the fact that the fat of the intensively reared animals that they get from their butchers differs from that eaten by hunter-gatherers at the time of Moses and by nomadic peoples like the Masai today. My colleagues and I have described these differences,1-4 World Medicine has revi...

Coronary heart disease secondary prevention

Epidemiological data suggests that India is host to 30–40 million patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and the 1 prevalence is increasing. This is also the largest cause of 2 mortality in the country. Unfortunately, the diagnosis and management of CHD in the country is not standardized and 3,4 follow-up mechanisms are poor. This is due to weak public and private healthcare systems for chr...

Primary prevention of coronary heart disease.

The future of coronary heart disease prevention.

death or serious disability in about onethird of people in Western societies and is now the leading cause of death worldwide. There are about 120,000 deaths each year in the UK, a rate that has remained constant despite a substantial decline in age-specific mortality over the past 25 years.1 Smoking cessation and interventions such as aspirin, thrombolysis and, more recently, statins and blood ...

Dietary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

This issue of Circulation contains an article 1 that I believe deserves special attention from cardiologists and physicians. It reports the 46-month mean follow-up findings on the original report of the study on “Mediterranean a-linolenic acid–rich diet in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease,” the so-called Lyon Diet Heart Study. This study was undertaken because of the interest of t...