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| Publication name: | Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease: A national clinical guideline |
| Description: | This guideline deals with both primary prevention, defined as the potential for intervention prior to the disease presenting through a specified event, and secondary prevention, defined as the potential for intervention after an event has occurred. The guideline group have tried to consider cardiovascular disease as a continuum from the pre-clinical to the end stage disease, potentially offering different opportunities to intervene, both prior to, and after an event, so creating the potential to alter the outcome of the disease process. The group believes that it is more relevant to consider an individual in terms of whether they have a high or low risk of CVD rather than in terms of primary or secondary prevention. |
| Date: | 1 February 2007 |
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