Available studies show convincingly the health benefits of lifestyle changes in CAD patients .
Effect estimates of combined dietary changes look promising .
BACKGROUND Guidelines for lifestyle and dietary modification in patients with coronary artery disease ( CAD ) are mainly supported by evidence from general population studies .
CAD patients , however , differ from the general population in age ( older ) and treatment with preventive drugs .
This review seeks to provide evidence for a prognostic benefit of lifestyle and dietary recommendations from studies in CAD patients .
No inverse association between fish consumption and risk of death from all-causes, and incidence of coronary heart disease in middle-aged, Danish adults.
This study investigate the relation between fish consumption  , all-cause mortality , and incidence of coronary heart disease ( CHD ) .  A total of 4,513 men and 3,984 women aged 30 - 70 years , sample d r and omly from the population in Copenhagen County , Denmark , with initially examination in 1982 - 1992 was followed until 2000 for all-cause mortality and until 1997 for first admission to hospital or death from CHD . Information on fish consumption was obtained from a self-administered food-frequency question naire . Cox proportional hazard analysis gave no evidence for an inverse association between fish consumption and all-cause mortality or incident CHD after adjustment for confounders . Among subjects with a priory-defined high risk of CHD there was a nonsignificant inverse relation between fish intake and CHD morbidity ( Hazard Ratio 1.28 ( 0.92 - 1.80 ) for a consumption of fish of less than two times per month or less compared with once a week ) , but there was relatively few cases in this subgroup . These data provides no evidence for a protective effect of fish consumption on all-cause mortality or incident CHD in the population as a whole , but it can not be excluded that frequent consumption of fish benefits those at high risk for CHD
Available studies show convincingly the health benefits of lifestyle changes in CAD patients .
Effect estimates of combined dietary changes look promising .
BACKGROUND Guidelines for lifestyle and dietary modification in patients with coronary artery disease ( CAD ) are mainly supported by evidence from general population studies .
CAD patients , however , differ from the general population in age ( older ) and treatment with preventive drugs .
This review seeks to provide evidence for a prognostic benefit of lifestyle and dietary recommendations from studies in CAD patients .