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Secondary prevention after coronary bypass: the American Heart Association “Get with the Guidelines” program  Timothy A Denton, MD, Gregg C Fonarow, MD,

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1 Secondary prevention after coronary bypass: the American Heart Association “Get with the Guidelines” program  Timothy A Denton, MD, Gregg C Fonarow, MD, Kenneth A LaBresh, MD, Alfredo Trento, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages (March 2003) DOI: /S (02)

2 Fig 1 Proportion of patients discharged on the nine guidelines after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, before (black bar, n = 93) and after (white bar, n = 67) the “Get With the Guidelines” program was implemented in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. (ACE = angiotensin-inhibiting enzyme inhibitor; ASA = aspirin; Beta = beta blocker; BMI = body mass index; Chol = cholesterol-lowering agent; DM = diabetes mellitus; Exerc = exercise; HTN = hypertension; Smoke = smoking cessation.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )


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