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Population-wide cardiovascular prevention programs likely to reduce costs

August 13, 2011

ST LOUIS (MD Consult) - Any intervention producing even a small reduction in any cardiovascular risk factor is likely to produce a net cost saving on the population level, suggests a modeling study in the August 13, 2011, British Medical Journal.

An economic modeling analysis was performed to evaluate the potential cost-effectiveness of a population-wide risk factor reduction program targeting cardiovascular disease prevention in England and Wales. Reductions in cardiovascular disease over a dec…

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