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We Must Focus on Achieving Favorable Levels of All Risk Factors Simultaneously
Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:2086-2087.
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As experience with control of earlier epidemics has taught us, prevention of mass disease requires a comprehensive national public health policy that is implemented effectively throughout the population. The United States was one of the first countries to develop public policy in response to adverse coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD) trends in the 1950s and early 1960s. Under joint leadership, professional, voluntary, and public organizations developed statements and guidelines that identified all major coronary heart disease risk factors and pinpointed approaches to their prevention and control. The National High Blood Pressure Education Program, launched in 1972, emphasized that high blood pressure (BP) was a major unsolved—but addressable—mass public health problem in the United States.1 In time, based on the recognition that the relation of BP to CVD is continuous, graded, and strong over the whole BP range,2 the focus has widened from interest mainly in elevated BP levels . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Martha L. Daviglus, MD, PhD;
Kiang Liu, PhD
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