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Kalevi Pyörälä
Researcher at European Society of Cardiology
Publications - 217
Citations - 57873
Kalevi Pyörälä is an academic researcher from European Society of Cardiology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diabetes mellitus & Myocardial infarction. The author has an hindex of 87, co-authored 217 publications receiving 56802 citations.
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Serum Zinc Level and Coronary Heart Disease Events in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether serum zinc level predicts coronary heart disease (CHD) events in subjects with type 2 diabetes and found that low serum zinc concentration was significantly associated with CHD mortality (relative risk [RR] 1.7, P = 0.002) and all CHD events (RR 1.37, P < 0.
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European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice - Third joint task force of European and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
Gui De Backer,E. Ambrosioni,K. Borch-Johnsen,C Brotons,Renata Cifkova,Jean Dallongeville,Shah Ebrahim,O. Faergeman,Ian D. Graham,Giuseppe Mancia,Vm Cats,Kristina Orth-Gomér,Joep Perk,Kalevi Pyörälä,Jl Rodicio,Susana Sans,Sansoy,Udo Sechtem,Sigmund Silber,Troels Thomsen,David R. Wood +20 more
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Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Europeans in Relation to Fasting and 2-h Plasma Glucose Levels Within a Normoglycemic Range
TL;DR: In individuals with both FPG and 2-h plasma glucose within the normoglycemic range, high 2-H plasma glucose was associated with insulin resistance and increased CVD mortality.
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Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events; the FINMONICA MI Register Study
Veikko Salomaa,H. Miettinen,Matti Niemelä,Matti Ketonen,Mähönen M,Pirjo Immonen-Räihä,Seppo Lehto,Vuorenmaa T,Seppo Koskinen,P. Palomäki,Harri Mustaniemi,Kaarsalo E,M. Arstila,Jorma Torppa,Kari Kuulasmaa,Pekka Puska,Kalevi Pyörälä,J. Tuomilehto +17 more
TL;DR: Considerable socioeconomic differences were observed in the case fatality of first coronary events both before hospitalisation and among patients hospitalised alive.
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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Finland—baseline data from the FINMONICA AMI register in 1983–1985
J. Tuomilethto,M. Arstila,Kaarsalo E,Jari Kankaanpää,Matti Ketonen,Kari Kuulasmaa,Seppo Lehto,Heikki Miettinen,Harri Mustaniemi,P. Palomäki,Pekka Puska,Kalevi Pyörälä,Veikko Salomaa,Jorma Torppa,Vuorenmaa T +14 more
TL;DR: The acute myocardial infarction (AMI) register of the FINMONICA study, the Finnish part of the WHO-coordinated multinational MONICA project, operates in the provinces of North Karelia and Kuopio in eastern Finland and in Turku, Loimaa and in communities around Loima in southwestern Finland as mentioned in this paper.