Will Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Widen Health Inequalities?
Open Access
- 24 August 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 7 (8), e1000320
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000320
Abstract
Simon Capewell and Hilary Graham review different population strategies for preventing cardiovascular disease and conclude that screening and treating high-risk individuals may be ineffective and widen social inequalities.Keywords
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