Children First Study II: an educational programme on cardiovascular prevention in public schools can reduce parents' cardiovascular risk.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze whether the implementation of a multidisciplinary educational programme for cardiovascular prevention in public schools can contribute to reducing the FramINGHAM CARDIOVASCULAR RISK SCORE OF THE CHILDREN'S PARENTS AFTER ONE YEAR.

Methods: This was a prospective, community-based, case-control study carried out in public schools in Sao Paulo, Brasil. Students were randomized to receive healthy lifestyle recommendations by two different approaches.

Children First Study: how an educational program in cardiovascular prevention at school can improve parents' cardiovascular risk.

Aim: To evaluate whether a multidisciplinary educational program (EP) in cardiovascular prevention (CVP) for children could improve the Framingham cardiovascular risk (FCR) of their parents after one year.

Methods And Results: This was a prospective community-based study in Brazil during 2010 that randomized students aged 6 to 10 years old to two different approaches to receiving healthy lifestyle information. The control group received written educational material (EM) for their parents about healthy lifestyle.

Misuse of antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation patients: frequent, pervasive and persistent.

Purpose: To assess the use of antithrombotic therapy among atrial fibrillation (AF) patients in a Brazilian University Heart Hospital (InCor).

Methods And Results: In a cross-sectional study we analyzed the charts of all patients treated at InCor in five separate days of 2002 (Phase 1). To assess the impact of admission to a cardiology hospital, a follow-up of the AF patients selected in Phase 1 was carried out after 1 year (Phase 2).

Secular trends in a population with ischemic heart disease admitted to the Instituto do Coração in São Paulo.

Objective: To assess the clinical and demographic characteristics of a population with ischemic heart disease admitted in the final decades of the 20th century.

Methods: This study retrospectively assessed patients hospitalized with ischemic heart disease divided into the following 2 groups: acute group - 11.181 patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted from 1/1/82 to 12/31/94; and chronic group - 4.

Demographic characteristics of the population undergoing cine coronary angiography at the Instituto do Coração of the Medical School of USP from 1986 to 1995.

Objective: To obtain information about the profile and behavior of a population with ischemic heart disease undergoing cine coronary angiography and to determine disease severity.

Methods: Retrospective study assessing patients hospitalized at InCor from 1986 to 1995, in which the variables age, sex, and number of major coronary arteries with obstruction degree > or =40% were analyzed.

Results: We studied 18,221 patients and observed a significant increase in the number of females (22.