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AHA Addresses Atherosclerosis Testing
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 1999;282:1991-1992.
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Atlanta—With data showing that atherosclerosis begins at an early age, researchers are developing new tests and refining old ones to assist primary care physicians in diagnosing heart disease among asymptomatic patients.
Speaking here at the recent annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association (AHA), Sidney C. Smith, Jr, MD, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease in Chapel Hill, NC, emphasized the need for global risk assessment—the estimation of absolute risk based on the summation of risks contributed by each risk factor—to give primary care physicians a better tool to determine whether patients have heart disease.
To that end, the AHA is planning to publish in the January issue of Circulation recommendations from the Prevention Conference V to identify high-risk patients for primary prevention. "We need to get out and prevent this disease," said Smith, who is the conference chair. "As good as secondary prevention is, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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