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Heart Disease In The News Why are you ignoring us? Patients in Europe and America are ignoring the pleas of doctors who urge them to take steps to reduce the lifestyle factors that lead to heart disease. In the journal Lancet investigators report that Europeans with heart disease are smoking more, becoming more obese, and developing more diabetes, despite major organized efforts to encourage healthier lifestyles. Physicians on the American side of the big lake have reported the same discouraging findings. The only bright spot is the fact that patients with heart disease are achieving better control of their cholesterol than they were in the past - but this finding is attributed to the more widespread use of statin drugs in these patients. The prevalence of risk factors that depend on changes in lifestyle are actually moving in the wrong direction. |
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