Risk factor awareness and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease: are we doing enough?

We prospectively assessed the patient awareness of risk factors of coronary artery disease (CAD) in this study by performing a voluntary questionnaire survey of 235 patients undergoing first time coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) between May and December 2003. We assessed patient awareness of smoking, hypertension (HT), hypercholesterolaemia (HC), obesity, family history (FM) and diabetes (DM) and role of medication in secondary prevention....