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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2007;297:1421-1422.

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In a philosophical shift, new guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women stress lifestyle modification over medical intervention.

The new guidelines, published online February 20 by Circulation, emphasize lifetime heart disease risk for women over the current 10-year Framingham risk assessment tool. The guidelines, which update advice published in 2004, stress lifestyle goals and clarify the use of aspirin for risk reduction. The guidelines emphatically reject various vitamin supplements and hormone therapy once considered potentially heart-protective (Mosca L et al. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.181546)

The release of the guidelines also offers an opportunity for cardiology experts to remind both women and physicians that heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide among both sexes. Indeed, 34% of US women are living with the condition, and many more are at risk, said Lori Mosca, MD, PhD, chair of the expert panel consisting of members of the American Heart Association . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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