BACKGROUND Coronary heart disease (CHD) affects approximately 13.5 million people in the United States. This accounts for significant morbidity and mortality, including approximately 900,000 myocardial infarctions and 250,000 deaths each year. A major goal for physicians caring for patients with CHD focuses on the management of risk factors known to be associated with recurrent cardiovascular [...]

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Many studies to date have demonstrated that physicians may benefit from further instruction on both the importance and guidelines of cancer screening. Furthermore, it has been suggested that efforts to deliver additional training during medical school and residency may establish practicing patterns that continue throughout the physician’s career. Before development of these educational efforts, baseline [...]

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There were 190 (response rate 77.6%) physicians-in-training who participated in the study. Demographic data for physicians-in-training are displayed in Table 2. Figure 2 and 3 demonstrate method A and method В for incidence and mortality for each training group. The numeric values are demonstrated in Tables 3 and 4. Figure 2 displays the extremely low [...]

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INTRODUCTION Annually, over 500,000 Americans are expected to succumb to cancer, making malignancy the second most frequent cause of death in this country. As more evidence emerges on the impact of early cancer detection, the attention of clinicians is being increasingly drawn to cancer screening. Medical and surgical efforts at achieving “cure” are often dependent [...]

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We examined racial differences in concern that people’s health would be hurt by their diet, an inability to exercise, an inability to follow a doctor’s recommendations or disease. There are at least two ways of viewing our findings. One is that although blacks and Latinos did not show differences in con¬cern across the different variables, [...]

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Characteristics of our sample are shown in Table 1. Respondents ranged in age from 18 to 93 (M=40.1, SD=16). The majority (82%) rated their health as good or better. The majority had attended college, had health insurance, had enough money to pay their bills, saw a doctor <1 year ago and had received dietary recommendations. [...]

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Participants and Procedure Data for the current analysis were from a larger study designed to investigate healthcare issues in Durham County, NC. The study was partially based on the Kaiser Family Foundation’s survey on race, ethnicity and the healthcare system. The sampling strategy was designed with two goals in mind: to obtain respondents representative of [...]

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