Public health, like medicine, focuses on three stages of prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary prevention means preventing disease before it occurs by altering behaviors.

The researchers give examples of two primary prevention patients who would have very different absolute benefits of taking statins. One is a 65-year-old man who smokes, ...

Primary prevention strategies can be employed on a number of levels. Legislation and regulation are effective strategies for changing policies that affect whole populations. Examples in work site ...

For example, Kuopio Atherosclerosis Prevention Study (KAPS), a primary prevention study of the effect of pravastatin on arterial thickening in men with elevated cholesterol, yielded a beneficial ...

(HealthDay News) — Almost 15 percent of U.S. adults aged 50 to 80 years are taking aspirin for primary cardiovascular disease prevention, according to a brief report published in the July 1 issue of ...

But evidence on the effects of statins for older people without heart disease – known as primary prevention – is lacking, particularly in those aged 85 years or older and those with diabetes. For the ...

MUNICH, Germany (UPDATED)—Aspirin reduces serious vascular events when used for primary CV prevention in patients with diabetes, but the cost in terms of major bleeding appears to be too high to ...