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

Editorial

Tariq Ahmad et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010.

. 2010 Feb 8;170(3):227-8.

doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.502.

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The effect of giving global coronary risk information to adults: a systematic review.
Sheridan SL, Viera AJ, Krantz MJ, Ice CL, Steinman LE, Peters KE, Kopin LA, Lungelow D; Cardiovascular Health Intervention Research and Translation Network Work Group on Global Coronary Heart Disease Risk. Sheridan SL, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010 Feb 8;170(3):230-9. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.516. Arch Intern Med. 2010. PMID: 20142567

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