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'Targeted advice' key to helping heart attack patients
New research from Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter, has suggested that rather than pursuing a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to providing guidance to people at risk of heart attacks or developing heart disease, a range of factors relating to the individual should be considered.
"In the past, researchers have thought we need to scare people into feeling at risk to make them change," explained Dr Hannah Farrimond, who studied the reaction of patients to being told they were at high risk.
But she said her research suggested most people did not need scaring into changing their habits to reduce their risk of heart attack.
"Clinical staff need to find other ways of encouraging patients to make the necessary lifestyle changes, such as offering personalised advice," she suggested.
A study looking into the possible link between heart attacks and people with arthritis in the UK has recently been expanded. The Arthritis Research Campaign is set to involve over 6,000 patients in the extensive research programme.
24 February 2009
Patients at risk of heart attacks and heart disease could benefit from receiving more directed and focussed advice from doctors, it has been claimed.New research from Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter, has suggested that rather than pursuing a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to providing guidance to people at risk of heart attacks or developing heart disease, a range of factors relating to the individual should be considered.
"In the past, researchers have thought we need to scare people into feeling at risk to make them change," explained Dr Hannah Farrimond, who studied the reaction of patients to being told they were at high risk.
But she said her research suggested most people did not need scaring into changing their habits to reduce their risk of heart attack.
"Clinical staff need to find other ways of encouraging patients to make the necessary lifestyle changes, such as offering personalised advice," she suggested.
A study looking into the possible link between heart attacks and people with arthritis in the UK has recently been expanded. The Arthritis Research Campaign is set to involve over 6,000 patients in the extensive research programme.
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