Patients with CHD or other major atherosclerotic disease For all patients with coronary heart disease (angina, myocardial infarction)or other major atherosclerotic disease, every effort should be made to achieve the lifestyle, risk factor, and therapeutic targets given in the table. The care of coronary patients should embrace all aspects of cardiac prevention and rehabilitation. Priorities for CHD prevention in clinical practice (a) Patients with established coronary heart disease (b) Patients with other major atherosclerotic disease Patients with hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes mellitus, family history of premature CHD, or a combination of these risk factors, which puts them at high risk of developing CHD or other atherosclerotic disease. Patients with diabetes melitus are at particularly high risk of CHD View this table: In this window In a new window Lifestyle, risk factor, and therapeutic targets for prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients with established CHD or other atherosclerotic disease and in healthy people at high risk of developing this disease Key references Wood DA, Durrington P, McInnes G, Poulter N, Rees A, Wray R . Joint British recommendations on prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice. Heart 1998; 80(suppl): S1–29. British Hypertension Society . Guidelines for hypertension management 1999:summary. BMJ 1999; 319: 630–5.