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The Hyperlipidaemia Handbook (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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The Hyperlipidaemia Handbook (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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1 Shepherd Coronary artery disease, the most important cause of
death in the United Kingdom, kills about 200 000 Britons each year.
Many victims are struck down out of the blue and in the prime of an
active working life. Others survive the fIrst attack but are so
debilitated by it that they are compelled to fall back on the
efforts of their family and the Social and Health Services for
their future survival. The epidemic proportions of the problem and
the burden which it places on the community at large has led many
health care professionals to reassess their attitudes to heart
disease prevention. In the past, the clinician's attention has been
directed primarily at the treatment of established ischaemic heart
disease rather than focussing on forestalling its appearance by
attempting to tackle those life-style habits within the population
which appear to predispose to it. A number of recent developments
make this approach hard to sustain. First, there is now convincing
evidence that action taken against cigarette smoking, hyper tension
and hypercholesterolaemia offers signifIcant protection to the
individual. Secondly, effective and apparently safe
antihypertensive and lipid-lowering agents have recently become
available to the practicing clinician. Thirdly, developments in
computer technology and laboratory equipment manufacture have
brought the measurement of coronary risk factors right into the
primary health care setting. And, last, but not least, political
attitudes towards prevention now favour the enthusiastic general
practitioner with an interest in anticipating and averting the
development of degenerative diseases like atherosclerosis."
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