Alphabetical online index of the Takeheart Health Check site. The prevention and different degrees of heart disease.

Takeheart Health Check       [Heart Attack Prevention Index]

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
4S Trial - more - more - more
5.2 mmols/l
8% of population are heavy drinkers
14% of teenagers regular smokers
18 fewer years of life for smokers
25% 15 year olds regular smokers
32 categories
75 years of age and smoking
80% of population never had a cholesterol test
90 year old smokers
170,000 deaths
53,000,000 working days lost

A
About Takeheart
Absenteeism and hypertension
Advertising Tobacco
Africans
Age and Takeheart
Admissions to hospital - due to alcohol
Accidents - due to alcohol
AFCAPS/TexCAPS
Alcohol
Alcohol - bad for the heart
Alcohol Consumption in UK
Alcohol - cost to industry
Alcohol - cost to NHS
Alcohol - good for the heart - more - more - more - more - more
Alcoholics, general practitioner advice
Alcoholism, screening tests
Alzheimer's disease
Angiographic Improvement
Antioxidants and coronary heart disease.
Anxiety/depression More
Anxiety/depression, self help materials
Anywhere - Takeheart will come
Appointments
ASH
Asians
Aspirin in primary prevention
Asthma
Atherosclerosis regression
Author

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B
Balanced View, A
Benecol margarine More
Benefits, benefits, benefits
Biomarkers Not a lot of help for prediction
Bladder cancer and smoking
Blood Pressure - more - more
Blood Pressure, 1999 WHO guidelines
Blood Pressure reduction, inconsistent in reduction of CHD - does reduce CHD
Blood Pressure Values
Blood sample
Body Mass Index    Calculate your own
Body Mass Index and Myocardial Infarction Risk
Bottom Line
Boyd, Rachel - a balanced view
Breast Cancer
Breast Feeding and Smoking
British Regional Heart Study
BUPA
Buproprion
Bury St Edmunds - a clone at work

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C
CAGE questions for problem drinkers
Canada
Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Britain - more
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - features
CARE Study
Cerivostatin
"Certificate of Health"
Chemcard - unreliable
Chief Medical Officer
Children, coronary risk factors oersist into adulthood
Children, obesity
Chinese smokers
Cholestech
Cholesterol
Cholesterol, bad - misconceptions
Cholesterol - conversion between mmols/l & mgs/dcl
Cholesterol levels
Cholesterol level guidelines
Cholesterol Levels, personal knowledge of
Cholesterol Lowering, good - more - no good
Cholesterol, normal value
Cholesterol at 5.2 mmols/l
Cholesterol reducing diet
Cholesterol Reduction reduces long term mortality
Cholesterol Reduction not harmful to health
Cholesterol testing, not worthwhile?
Cholesterol Testing, slow uptake in UK
Chronic Bronchitis
Cigarette Smoking Costs of fires, jobs, the NHS
Cigarette Smoking - effects reversible
Clayton, Dr Geoff
Clayton, Mrs Shirley
Clopidogrel
Close down
Clubs - Takeheart will come to
Coal Gas
Cochrane Test
Coffee and Coronary Heart Disease
COMA
Communication Importance of when recommending screening
Confidentiality
Contraceptive pill and myocardial infarction
Control at Work - more - more - more
Consumer health information
Cookies
Coronary Heart Disease, prevalence
Coronary Prevention Group and blood pressure
Coronary Prevention Group, outline strategy
Coronary Prevention Group - Policy Statement
Coronary Prevention Group Says:-
Coronary risk factor assessment - similar but different from Takeheart
Cosmetic Surgery
Cost of coronary artery disease (more)
Cost of Takeheart
Costs, capital
Costs, running
Counselling

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D
Data acquisition
Data Protection Principles
Data Protection Registrar
Day, how many clients in a?
Death certificates, are they accurate?
Deaths due to alcohol
Deaths due to coronary heart disease
Deaths from heart disease preventable - more
Death rates
Deaths in England
Diabetic Clinic, costs - more
Diesel Fumes
Dietary advice for reducing cholesterol - more
Disclaimer
PICTURE OF  FOXGLOVE 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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E
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
Email - Takeheart by
Emphysema
Employment, loss of
Endometrial Cancer
Ethnic minorities
Evaluation
Expert system
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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F
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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G
Gas Appliances
General Health Questionnaire
General Practitioners - could do better
General Practitioners and stopping smoking
GGT
GGT and alcohol - more - more
GGT & Drinking Drivers
GGT & Drugs
GGT & MCV
GGT Raised in:-
Gift Vouchers
Glasgow and drinking
Goldberg, Professor D
Gooch, Benjamin
Gothenberg Hypertension Trial
Government Screening Policy
Guest Book
Guidelines from the British Hyperlipidaemia Association

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H
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
Helsinki Businessmen
Hip Fracture
Home Page
Homocysteine
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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I
Impotence and smoking
Information Highway, standards - more
Internet, human resources on
Internet, Consumer health information
Ischaemic heart disease, trends

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J
Jellinek's Formula
John Perry Prize - BCS
John Perry Prize

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K
Keep Our Hospital in Norwich

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L
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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M
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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N
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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O
Oats
Obesity
Obligations
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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P
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
Privacy Policy
Problem Drinkers
Procedure of Takeheart

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Q
QRISK2
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
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
Quiz

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R
Reading list
Reflotron
Reflotron Accuracy
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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S
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
Search Takeheart
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
Stoves, gas or coke
Stress
Stress at work
Stress, control it
Stroke
Student Nurses and Smoking
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

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T
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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U
Understanability - Flesch scores
Undressing, any need to?
Unemployment
United States experience
Upjohn report

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V
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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W
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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Y
You Come to Takeheart
Young Men at Risk
Young people and life style intervention
Young women and smoking

Z
Zocor
Zyban

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