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Systematic screening for ischaemic heart disease risk factors combined with repeated lifestyle counselling does not reduce the 10-year incidence of ischaemic heart disease in the general population.
Regular health screenings and lifestyle advice alone, without more intensive or sustained support, may not prevent heart disease in the general population. Focus on sustainable lifestyle habits rather than just risk assessment.
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A community based, individually tailored intervention programme with screening and repeated lifestyle intervention over five years had no effect on incidence of ischaemic heart disease in the population.
Why this rating
Large-scale randomized population-based trial (n=59,616) with complete follow-up via national registries.
Source
Effect of screening and lifestyle counselling on incidence of ischaemic heart disease in general population: Inter99 randomised trial
Torben Jørgensen et al. · BMJ · 2014
DOI 10.1136/bmj.g3617
rct · n=59616Cited 266×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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