Sidney Smith, a cardiologist at the University of North Carolina, says doctors need money to do trials examining different ways of getting patients to take medicines that will help them.

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"Anything that increases my ability to identify people at risk, I'm interested, " says Sidney Smith, a past president of the American Heart Association and professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Professor Sidney Smith, Chairman of the World Heart Federation Scientific Advisory Board, said his organisation supported twin centers grants where specialist training is available and sponsors public education programs on heart disease and women.

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