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Minnesota Heart Health Program

University of Minnesota community trial (1980-1990) that ran a 5-6 year programme of mass media, community organising, risk factor screening, adult classes, school programmes and clinician education in Mankato (from 1981), Fargo-Moorhead (1982) and Bloomington (1983), each matched with a comparison community.

Years
1981
Country
United States
Topic
Blood pressureCardiovascularNutritionPhysical activityTobacco
Asks people to
Seek helpStartStop
Strategy
Multi level community
Channel
Clinical settingEventsPrintRadioSchoolTV
Audience
AdultsCliniciansGeneral publicYouth
Education communities Mankato, Fargo-Moorhead, Bloomington; comparison Winona, Sioux Falls, Roseville.

Evidence

Quasi-experimentalNo effect

Many components worked in targeted groups, but against strong favourable secular trends the overall effects on risk factors were modest, short-lived and generally within chance (Luepker et al. 1994). No significant intervention effect on coronary heart disease or stroke morbidity or mortality (Luepker et al. 1996).

Sponsor (who paid)

  • University of Minnesota School of Public Health Academic, designer and evaluator
  • National Institutes of Health (grant R01HL025523) Federal government, funder

Credits (who made it)

  • Russell V. Luepker Individual

Related campaigns

Sources

  1. Luepker RV et al. Community education for cardiovascular disease prevention: risk factor changes in the Minnesota Heart Health Program. Am J Public Health 1994;84:1383-93 evaluation · 1994 · DOI 10.2105/ajph.84.9.1383 · PMID 8092360
  2. Luepker RV et al. Community education for cardiovascular disease prevention. Morbidity and mortality results from the Minnesota Heart Health Program. Am J Epidemiol 1996;144:351-62 evaluation · 1996 · DOI 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008936 · PMID 8712192
  3. Minnesota Heart Health Program study record (registry mirror of NIH/ClinicalTrials.gov entry) reference

Research notes

Community names, start years per site and components come from the registry record (ctv.veeva.com mirror, fetched 2026-10-23), which lists NIH grant R01HL025523 but does not name NHLBI. End year left blank: each site had 5-6 years of education (Bloomington started 1983); the trial overall ran 1980-1990.

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