TY - JOUR
T1 - Opening remarks
T2 - The need to manage risk factors of coronary heart disease
AU - Mancia, Giuseppe
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - This symposium deals with the relationship between smoking and increased risk of cardiovascular disease within a number of perspectives ranging from the biochemical to the epidemiologic. The established major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and smoking, are present, oftenin combination, in populations around the world. These factors have been found to interact in a synergistic manner to increase the risk of coronary heart disease. Traditional antihypertensive treatment offers little protection against coronary heart disease, perhaps because antihypertensive drugs tend to be prescribed to reduce blood pressure without attention being paid to the presence of other risk factors. This symposium should clarify new knowledge on cardiovascular risk factors, thus influencing future therapeutic strategies for hypertension and cardiovascular disease in patients who smoke.
AB - This symposium deals with the relationship between smoking and increased risk of cardiovascular disease within a number of perspectives ranging from the biochemical to the epidemiologic. The established major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and smoking, are present, oftenin combination, in populations around the world. These factors have been found to interact in a synergistic manner to increase the risk of coronary heart disease. Traditional antihypertensive treatment offers little protection against coronary heart disease, perhaps because antihypertensive drugs tend to be prescribed to reduce blood pressure without attention being paid to the presence of other risk factors. This symposium should clarify new knowledge on cardiovascular risk factors, thus influencing future therapeutic strategies for hypertension and cardiovascular disease in patients who smoke.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-8703(88)90643-6
DO - 10.1016/0002-8703(88)90643-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 3336992
AN - SCOPUS:0023870593
VL - 115
SP - 240
EP - 242
JO - American Heart Journal
JF - American Heart Journal
SN - 0002-8703
IS - 1 PART 2
ER -