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Weekly JAMA Feature for May 11
LOWERING RISK FACTORS AND IMPROVING TREATMENTS LOWER HEART DISEASE DEATHS IN CANADA
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
May 11, 2010
VO: HEART DISEASE IS STILL THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DEATH ACROSS THE GLOBE. OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS MANY WESTERN COUNTRIES INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, HAVE SEEN A DROP IN HEART DISEASE DEATHS BECAUSE OF BEHAVORIAL CHANGES, NEW MEDICATIONS AND TREATMENTS. A NEW STUDY LOOKS AT WHETHER OR NOT THE SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR CANADIANS WHEN IT COMES TO HANDLING HEART DISEASE.
“The most impressive parts of the results were the 35 percent reduction in cardiovascular mortality over the last decade seen in Ontario.”
VO: DR. HARINDRA (HER-REN-DRAH) WIJEYSUNDERA (WUH-JEY-SUNDRAH) FROM THE SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER IN ONTARIO, CANADA AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED THOSE DIAGNOSED WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN THE ONTARIO PROVINCE FROM 1994 TO 2005. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“Just under 50 percent of that overall mortality was associated with behavioral changes and risk factors the biggest players being high blood pressure and high cholesterol, just over 40 percent was from improvements in the uptake of treatments.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
May 11, 2010
VO: HEART DISEASE IS STILL THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DEATH ACROSS THE GLOBE. OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS MANY WESTERN COUNTRIES INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, HAVE SEEN A DROP IN HEART DISEASE DEATHS BECAUSE OF BEHAVORIAL CHANGES, NEW MEDICATIONS AND TREATMENTS. A NEW STUDY LOOKS AT WHETHER OR NOT THE SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR CANADIANS WHEN IT COMES TO HANDLING HEART DISEASE.
“The most impressive parts of the results were the 35 percent reduction in cardiovascular mortality over the last decade seen in Ontario.”
VO: DR. HARINDRA (HER-REN-DRAH) WIJEYSUNDERA (WUH-JEY-SUNDRAH) FROM THE SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER IN ONTARIO, CANADA AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED THOSE DIAGNOSED WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN THE ONTARIO PROVINCE FROM 1994 TO 2005. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“Just under 50 percent of that overall mortality was associated with behavioral changes and risk factors the biggest players being high blood pressure and high cholesterol, just over 40 percent was from improvements in the uptake of treatments.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.