Cardiac Mortality Drop Attributed to Therapies and Risk Factor Reductions - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today

Cardiac Mortality Drop Attributed to Therapies and Risk Factor Reductions - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today: "Cardiac Mortality Drop Attributed to Therapies and Risk Factor Reductions

By Neil Osterweil, Senior Associate Editor, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
June 06, 2007

ATLANTA, June 6 -- Credit for the near halving of the rate of coronary disease deaths in the U.S, from 1980 to 2000, belongs equally to reductions in risk factors and to the rise of evidence-based therapies, found CDC and British researchers."

Ford ES et al. "Explaining the Decrease in U.S. Deaths from Coronary Disease, 1980-2000." N Engl J Med 2007;356:2388-98.