Benefits of school-based, family-oriented cardiovascular risk screening and intervention
1988
Santanello, N.C. | Meyerson, D.A.
How to attract high-risk young and middle-aged adults into cardiovascular risk screening and intervention programs, and who in the pediatric population to screen, are important and only partially answered questions. This study demonstrates that a school-based, family-oriented program can attract into the health care system a significant number of high-risk adults who otherwise might not be identified. Additionally, screening only those children with a positive family history would have failed to identify almost two thirds of the higher-risk children in our study. A more widespread recognition among the general medical community of the familial nature of cardiovascular disease and of the possibilities for risk modification of entire family units is urged.
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