Meeting Summary NHLBI Workshop on the Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial

N scientific evidence showing a beneficial relationship between cholesterol reduction and coronary heart disease (CHD) reduction, which was originally published by the Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (CPPT), was the focus of a workshop sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in June 1984 in Bethesda, Maryland. The NHLBI Director, Dr. Claude Lenfant, opened the sessions and explained that the purposes of the workshop were to review the CPPT results and present additional Trial data; to relate CPPT results to other clinical, epidemiological, and experimental research findings; and to identify issues arising from the Trial and their implications. A final objective was to identify areas for new research.