Targeted interventions could potentially benefit high-risk individuals in a cost-effective manner.

Despite these benefits, no survival benefit has been proven for high-risk individuals.

Thus the high-risk individuals do not number in high enough quantities to increase the net risk per person from previous practice.

In India, security details are provided to high-risk individuals by the police and local government.

The real issue is that lifestyle modification alone in a high-risk individual is often not enough to adequately lower heart disease risk.

Fifteen states have created special health insurance pools for high-risk individuals who cannot obtain coverage in the private market.

For people who simply cannot get private insurance, many states offer programs that are intended to cover high-risk individuals.

A state commission recently urged the state to take over more of the plan's responsibility for insuring high-risk individuals.

Vaccination also is recommended for anyone who might expose such high-risk individuals to the flu.

However, high-risk individuals get more from the pool, and low-income persons and children under 18 have their insurance paid for entirely.