title: Practical strategies for cardiac disease prevention. Basic steps to ensure better heart health.
abstract: Primary care physicians are deluged with medical information from many sources: medical literature, public media and the Internet, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, and patients themselves. How can a physician best deal with the volume of data provided by scientific research, medical education, drug promotion, popular opinion, government regulation, and payer constraints?
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas School of Medicine, USA. jlvacek@mac.md
authors.forename: James L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vacek
mesh_terms: D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*