Regional prevention project involving 10,000 adults cuts heart attacks by 25 percent

A project which is merging environmental, peer leadership and individual interventions across an entire rural Minnesota community with the assistance of a health-care system, worksites and the general community to prevent coronary heart disease, has shown a 24 percent reduction in the number of acute heart attacks in a five-quarter period, compared with the previous five-quarter period of evaluation.

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