Improvement in coronary heart disease risk factors linked to lower rate of CHD death
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 16:50
in Health & Medicine
From 1994 to 2005 in Ontario, Canada, there was a 35 percent decrease in the rate of deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD), with about half of this reduction associated with improvements in traditional CHD risk factors such as total cholesterol levels and systolic blood pressure, according to a study in the May 12 issue of JAMA.