Can dietary changes rapidly decrease cardiovascular mortality rates?
Open Access
- 2 March 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Heart Journal
- Vol. 32 (10), 1187-1189
- https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehr049
Abstract
The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recently published guidance on the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in whole populations.1 The lukewarm government response demonstrated a surprising ignorance of the scale and rapidity of the potential benefits.Keywords
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