Digitalis. William Withering first demonstrated the beneficial effects of extracts of foxglove leaf. Select this picture if you would like to know more

Doll, Sir Richard - ex-smokers owe their lives to him

Durban, South Africa

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East Anglia and alcohol

East Anglia - cigarettes & alcohol

Economic Costs Of Heart Disease

Electrocardiogram

Electrocardiagram Not helpful for prediction

Elderly and blood pressure - more - more

Elderly and Exercise

Elderly and homocysteine

Email address for Takeheart

Executive perk, heart disease not one

Exercise

Exercise, health walks

Exercise is protective against heart attack - more - more more more still

Exercise and rehabilitation

Exhaust fumes

Experience, the TAKEHEART

Eyesight and smoking

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Factories - Takeheart will come to

Familial hypercholesterolaemia and xenotransplantation.

FearFighter

Facts and Figures about coronary heart disease

Fibre, soluble - more

Finland, the North Karelia Project

Finnish MPs

Fish

Folic Acid more

Follow up, providing & sustaining

Form for Takeheart

Framingham - blood pressure, cholesterol & smoking More

Framingham and blood pressure

Framingham - 43% reduction in coronary heart disease

Framingham - Death certification, is it accurate?

Framingham Heart Study - What is it?

Franchising possibilities

French Paradox - more There is no paradox

French, report written in

Frequently Asked Questions

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Gas Appliances

General Health Questionnaire

General Practitioners - could do better

General Practitioners and stopping smoking

GGT

GGT and alcohol - more - more

GGT & Drinking Drivers

Goldberg, Professor D

Gooch, Benjamin

Gothenberg Hypertension Trial

Government Screening Policy

Guest Book

Guidelines from the British Hyperlipidaemia Association

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Hales, The Rev Stephen

Halves, rule of - more

Harm by screening?

Hazardous Drinkers, early detection & counselling works

Health Centres - Takeheart will come to

Health Education - little effect on cholesterol levels - 11.4% reduction in mortality

"Health of the Nation"

Health Promotion - more

Heart Disease

Heartbeat Award Scheme

Heavy drinkers

Heavy Drinkers at increased risk

Homocysteine Useful marker for 85yr olds.

Housekeeping

How long does it take?

HPS Study

Hypercholesterolaemia Effects of statins on

Hypercholesterolaemia Identification and management in general practice

Hyperlipidaemia

Hyperlipidaemia, guidelines from the British Hyperlipidaemia Association

Hypertension in the elderly

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Impotence and smoking

Information Highway, standards - more

Internet, human resources on

Internet, Consumer health information

Ischaemic heart disease, trends

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Jellinek's Formula

John Perry Prize - BCS

John Perry Prize

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Keep Our Hospital in Norwich

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Languages

Latent Trait Analysis

Laughter and heart disease

Leeds/Hamilton Scale

Leisure Centres - Takeheart will come to

Less privileged

Leyden Trial Life Assurance

Life Style Clinic

Life Style Intervention does have an effect - more - cost effective

Life Style Intervention, effects inconclusive

Links - reciprocal

Links - useful

Lipid modification Nice guidelines.

Lipids in Health & Disease

Lipobay

Lipostat

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Macular degeneration More

Margarine

Menopause

Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Syndrome Not usefully predictive

Mobile Clinic

Monica Project

Monsey, Messenger

Multifactorial nature of the risk

Multiple Risk Factor Trial - mortality benefit - more - more - more

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National Service Framework, implications for primary care

Near Patient Testing - more

NICE

NICE Cholesterol in secondary prevention.

NICE Guidelines for risk assessment and lipid modification

Nicotine Withdrawal

N&N Hospital, foundation

N&N Hospital, removal to the country

NHS Dismantling

North Sea Gas

Northern Ireland

Numbers of coronary incidents

Nurses, general health checks by more - more

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Offices - Takeheart will come to

Older degrees of heart disease

Older people and heart disease

Older people and medicalisation of

Older people at risk from smoking and cholesterol

Online degrees

Online degrees research

Online programs for health degrees

Oral contraception and myocardial infarction

Overweight/obesity

Oxcheck

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Paracetamol and hypertension More

Passive Smoking - more - more - more - more - in spouse - Amount of nicotine taken in

Peak Flow Rate

Personality and heart disease - more

Pharmacy Testing Guidelines - more

Physical Activity and the Heart

Platelets

Plavix

Pollock, Allyson

Polypill for reducing cardiovascular disease by 80%

Polypill Whatever happened to it?

Pravastatin

Prevalence of coronary heart disease

Prevention

Prevention - secondary works

Primary Health Care Specialist Group - BCS

Primary Prevention, conservatism justified

Primary Prevention in the USA

Primary prevention works, more

Primary prevention 4 times better than secondary prevention

Problem Drinkers

Procedure of Takeheart

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Quality Control, Broughton & Bullock

Quality Control, internal & external

QUALYs

Questionnaire used in general practice to assess risk

Quickread - unreliable

QRISK Independent external evaluation.

QRISK or Framingham?

QUIT

Quitting Smoking, reduction in risk

Quitting Smoking, Sheffield Centre for Health & Related Research

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Reflotron, comparison with laboratory

Regression of Coronary Heart Disease more

Rehabilitation, cardiac

Report, the

Report - Example written in English

Report - Example written in French

Report Generator

Results

Risk in Cardiovascular Disease

Risk Factors explained

Risk Factors not a useful screening test

Risk Factors, prevalence - more

Rose's axioms more

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Salt and Blood Pressure

Screening Does it deliver large benefits?

Screening, the issues

Screening. is it bad for you?

Screening - no clear effect on CHD endpoints

Screening - no significant difference

Screening for coronary heart disease a good thing

Screening, use of questionnaire

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Secondary prevention more

Secondary smoking

Shanghai, cholesterol levels

Shaper, Professor G

Shaper Scoring

Sheffield table, new

Shift work and myocardial infarction

Shotesham, Norfolk

Simvastatin

Sitostanol ester

Six Simple Tips to Stop Smoking

Slimming

Smith's Meta-analysis

Smoking and cancer

Smoking Women

Smoking in the home

Smoking - costs - more

Smoking - a crushing condemnation

Smoking, how to stop

Smoking in public

Smoking Survey

Socio-economic component

Spam

Statins

Still Smoking

Statins, use of in population of UK

Statins, reduction in risk by their use.

Statins, effect on lipids

Stanols & Sterols, plant, in margarine

Step2quit

Stopped Smoking

Stopping Smoking - success rates - More More

Student Nurses and Smoking

Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

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Takeheart in a nutshell

Takeheart will:-

Tamoxifen - more

Tattoo Removal

Teetotalers at increased risk

Ten Reasons to Stop Smoking

Thurlow, Edward - Lord Chancellor

Tobacco, links

Tobacco use, trends

Tobacco, UK Government targets

Total Cholesterol most important single blood lipid risk factor

Transcendental Meditation

Triglycerides

Tunstall-Pedoe, Professor Hugh - "Take care of your risk factors."

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Understanability - Flesch scores

Undressing, any need to?

Unemployment

United States experience

Upjohn report

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Valiant Efforts at stopping smoking

Vegetarian diet

Village Halls - Takeheart will come to

Violent deaths after cholesterol reduction - more

Vitamin E - Does it help to prevent heart attacks?

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Waist/hip ratios in women and CHD risk

Wales

Weight

What If?

While I'm here doctor

Whitehall Study

Who Should be Screened?

Wilson's Criteria - more

Wolfson EQAS

Women, cholesterol not a cardiovascular risk - more

Women and coronary heart disease - more - more - more

Women and smoking more

Workers

WOSCOPS

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You Come to Takeheart

Young Men at Risk

Young people and life style intervention

Young women and smoking

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