From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Patient—Part III: Executive Summary of the Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education (SHAPE) Task Force Report

• Published in: The American journal of cardiology Vol. 98; no. 2; pp. 2 - 15
• Main Authors: Naghavi, Morteza, Falk, Erling, Hecht, Harvey S., Jamieson, Michael J., Kaul, Sanjay, Berman, Daniel, Fayad, Zahi, Budoff, Matthew J., Rumberger, John, Naqvi, Tasneem Z., Shaw, Leslee J., Faergeman, Ole, Cohn, Jay, Bahr, Raymond, Koenig, Wolfgang, Demirovic, Jasenka, Arking, Dan, Herrera, Victoria L.M., Badimon, Juan, Goldstein, James A., Rudy, Yoram, Airaksinen, Juhani, Schwartz, Robert S., Riley, Ward A., Mendes, Robert A., Douglas, Pamela, Shah, Prediman K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 17.07.2006; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Cardiovascular disease; Coronary Artery Disease - etiology; Coronary Artery Disease - prevention & control; Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology; Death, Sudden, Cardiac - prevention & control; Disease Progression; Guidelines; Heart attacks; Humans; Mass Screening; Medical screening; Patient Education as Topic; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Preventive medicine; Risk Assessment

Screening for early-stage asymptomatic cancers (eg, cancers of breast and colon) to prevent late-stage malignancies has been widely accepted. However, although atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (eg, heart attack and stroke) accounts for more death and disability than all cancers combined, there...