The Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (www.shapesociety.org) recently held its SHAPE Task Force II Meeting to begin deliberations related to an update of the groundbreaking SHAPE Guideline released in 2006. We spoke with Dr. J. David Spence, B.A., M.B.A., M.D. about what patients should do to protect themselves, Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario and Director of the Stroke Prevention & Atherosclerosis Research Centre at Roberts Research Institute.