J. HELP Study GroupHeart European Leaders Panel (HELP) Study Group. Victor Alcalde, Employee Health Department, Opel España de AutomovilesSpain; Paul-André Béfort, Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, France; Brigitte Boucher, Nutritionist and General Practitioner, France; Erland Erdmann, Medizinische Klinik III, University of Cologne, Germany; Felix Gutzwiller, Institut fur Sozial und; Präventivmedizin; University of Zürich, Switzerland; Theo J.E. van Hemert, Zorgverzerekaars Nederland, The Netherlands; Isabelle Jordan-Ghizzo, External Communication, Danone (Dairy Branch), France; Alessandro Menotti, Cardioricerca, Rome, Italy; Per Schioldborg, Psykologisk Institutt, University of Oslo, Norway; David R. Thompson, School of Health, University of Hull, England; Michael Turner, Family Heart Association, Oxford, England; Bernd Umlauf, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Pharmaceutical Group, Europe, Germany.
An international survey was conducted to assess public awareness and attitudes to coronary heart disease and to establish the frequency with which certain health-related behaviours are practised in five European countries. Members of the general public (n=5013); individuals at increased risk of coronary disease (n=2500); patients who had suffered a myocardial infarction (n=1256) and members of their...