Secondary prevention clinics reduce coronary events and death

Nurse led secondary prevention clinics improve patient medical and lifestyle factors, reducing cardiac illness and death over the long term. Murchie and colleagues (p 84) conducted a follow up study of a randomised controlled trial in primary care. The short term improvements produced by secondary prevention clinics promoting aspirin, blood pressure and lipid management, and a healthy diet were maintained. Deaths were significantly reduced in the intervention group after more than four years of follow up. Secondary prevention clinics should be introduced sooner after a cardiac event, rather than later.

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Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: four year follow up of a randomised controlled trial in primary care

Peter Murchie, Neil C Campbell, Lewis D Ritchie, Julie A Simpson, and Joan Thain
BMJ 2003 326: 84. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]