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SFU/Fraser heart health research project nedds your help
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September 27, 2002
Have a heart?
If you answered "yes," proceed to the next question.
Have you been diagnosed with heart disease (or, told you are at moderate to high risk)?
If "yes," please carry on, as you may be one of the 1,000 volunteers Simon Fraser University and the Fraser Health Authority is looking for.
Do you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes?
Do you smoke?
Are you are between 45 and 64?
If you said "yes" to at least two of the above and you live between Burnaby, Boston Bar and White Rock, researchers from Fraser Health and Simon Fraser are inviting you to join them in a research project aimed at helping people use "best practices" to take care of their own heart health.
The researchers – Andrew Wister and Ellen Balka of SFU, Nadine Loewen, Holly Kennedy-Symonds and Brian McGowan of the FHA, recently received the go-ahead to recruit 1,000 participants for the study.
"This four year project is seeking ways to prevent heart problems and improve quality of life for patients," says Wister "We’re hoping that the results will lead to healthier hearts for mid-life Canadians, the group that is most at risk from heart disease. We’ll be looking at ways of lowering risk through changes in lifestyle such as eating, exercise, stress
reduction and, of course, quitting smoking if that is part of a person’s life."
Participants in the study (funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research) will be divided into treatment and control groups. The treatment group will receive consultation and follow-up with a lifestyle counseling team while the control group members will continue their usual care. The identity of all participants will be kept confidential. Only group results will be reported. For more information contact Bonnie McCoy, 604.412.6492; bonnie.mccoy@fraserhealth.ca The eligibility questionnaire is available at online.
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CONTACT
Andrew Wister, 604.291.5044, Bonnie McCoy, 604.412.6492 or
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, Media & PR, 604.291.5151
If you answered "yes," proceed to the next question.
Have you been diagnosed with heart disease (or, told you are at moderate to high risk)?
If "yes," please carry on, as you may be one of the 1,000 volunteers Simon Fraser University and the Fraser Health Authority is looking for.
Do you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes?
Do you smoke?
Are you are between 45 and 64?
If you said "yes" to at least two of the above and you live between Burnaby, Boston Bar and White Rock, researchers from Fraser Health and Simon Fraser are inviting you to join them in a research project aimed at helping people use "best practices" to take care of their own heart health.
The researchers – Andrew Wister and Ellen Balka of SFU, Nadine Loewen, Holly Kennedy-Symonds and Brian McGowan of the FHA, recently received the go-ahead to recruit 1,000 participants for the study.
"This four year project is seeking ways to prevent heart problems and improve quality of life for patients," says Wister "We’re hoping that the results will lead to healthier hearts for mid-life Canadians, the group that is most at risk from heart disease. We’ll be looking at ways of lowering risk through changes in lifestyle such as eating, exercise, stress
reduction and, of course, quitting smoking if that is part of a person’s life."
Participants in the study (funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research) will be divided into treatment and control groups. The treatment group will receive consultation and follow-up with a lifestyle counseling team while the control group members will continue their usual care. The identity of all participants will be kept confidential. Only group results will be reported. For more information contact Bonnie McCoy, 604.412.6492; bonnie.mccoy@fraserhealth.ca The eligibility questionnaire is available at online.
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CONTACT
Andrew Wister, 604.291.5044, Bonnie McCoy, 604.412.6492 or
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, Media & PR, 604.291.5151