Providing patients with global cardiovascular risk information: Is knowledge power?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-228

  Ahmad, Tariq ^a   Mora, Samia ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COUNSELING; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETIC RISK; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING CESSATION; WELLBEING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 76149108421     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.502     Document Type: Editorial

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