Cardiovascular disease risk factors: improvements in knowledge and behavior in the 1980s.
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Analysis of five cross-sectional surveys demonstrated improvements in respondents' general cardiovascular disease risk factor knowledge and behaviors, and cholesterol-related knowledge and behavior showed particularly marked improvements.Abstract:
This study surveyed 4158 adults residing in two control cities of the Stanford Five-City Project. Analysis of five cross-sectional surveys (conducted in 1979 through 1990) demonstrated improvements in respondents' general cardiovascular disease risk factor knowledge and behaviors. Cholesterol-related knowledge and behavior showed particularly marked improvements.read more
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Farquhar Jw,Stephen P. Fortmann,June A. Flora,Craig Barr Taylor,William L. Haskell,P T Williams,Nathan Maccoby,P.D. Wood +7 more
TL;DR: After 30 to 64 months of education, significant net reductions in community averages favoring treatment occurred in plasma cholesterol level, blood pressure, resting pulse rate, and smoking rate of the cohort sample, which resulted in important decreases in composite total mortality risk scores and coronary heart disease risk scores.
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Farquhar Jw,Stephen P. Fortmann,Nathan Maccoby,William L. Haskell,P T Williams,June A. Flora,C. B. Taylor,Byron W. Brown,Solomon Ds,Stephen B. Hulley +9 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that a 20% decrease in cardiovascular Disease risk will lead to a significant decline in cardiovascular disease event rates in two treatment communities compared with three reference communities as a result of a six-year intervention program of community-wide health education and organization.
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Social class disparities in risk factors for disease: eight-year prevalence patterns by level of education.
TL;DR: A highly significant pattern of associations was found between education level and the six risk factors, in the direction of higher risk among those with lower education, which persisted for both sexes and in the younger as well as the older age groups.
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Change in Physician Perspective on Cholesterol and Heart Disease: Results From Two National Surveys
Beth Schucker,Janet Wittes,Jeffrey A. Cutler,Kent R. Bailey,Douglas R. Mackintosh,David Gordon,Carol Haines,Margaret E. Mattson,Ronald S. Goor,Basil M. Rifkind +9 more
TL;DR: Assessment of attitudes and practices regarding elevated serum cholesterol levels in practicing physicians in 1983 and 1986 indicates that by 1986, physicians were more convinced of the benefit of lowering high blood cholesterol levels and were treating patients accordingly.
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Change in cholesterol awareness and action. Results from national physician and public surveys.
Beth Schucker,Janet Wittes,Nancy C. Santanello,Stephen J. Weber,Daniel McGoldrick,Karen A. Donato,Alan Levy,Basil M. Rifkind +7 more
TL;DR: Over 90% of physicians reported awareness and use of the recommendations from the Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, and the public reported marked increases in awareness of dietary methods to lower serum cholesterol in 1990.