Prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practiceSummary of Recommendations of the Second joint Task Force of European and other Societies on Coronary Prevention

This summary is taken from the Second Joint Task Force of European and other Societies Recommendations on Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Clinical Practice. The second Task Force was convened by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH), the societies responsible for the original 1994 Task Force recommendations on coronary prevention (Chairman Professor K Pyorala) and consisted of a writing group, other invited members and specialists, together with representatives of other European societies and organisations as listed in the appendix. The full Task Force first met in November 1997 to review the original recommendations and agree on the principles for revision. The Writing Group then prepared a new draft of the recommendations and the specialist contributions of Professor Daan Kromhout (diet), Professor Kristina Orth-Gomer (socioeconomic, psychosocial factors and behavioural change), Professor Francois Cambi...