New Guidelines Stress Medical Therapy for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

The new guidelines include 48 specific recommendations relevant for primary-care physicians and emphasize patient education, managing cardiovascular risk factors, a discussion of unproven risk-reduction strategies, the use of medical therapy to prevent MI and death and to relieve angina symptoms, the use of revascularization to improve survival and symptoms, and patient follow-up.

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via Medscape news