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Epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease and stroke in Japanese men living in Japan, Hawaii and California: Demographic, physical, dietary and biochemical characteristics
Abraham Kagan,Benedict R. Harris,Warren Winkelstein,Kenneth G. Johnson,Hiroo Kato,S. Leonard Syme,George G. Rhoads,Milton Z. Nichaman,Howard B. Hamilton,Jeanne Tillotson +9 more
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In most populations with low cholesterol levels and a low prevalence of coronary heart disease, the intake of fat is low and the fat which is ingested is derived primarily from fish and vegetable oils, and in most populations exhibiting a high serum cholesterol in men, there is also a high prevalence of heart disease.About:
This article is published in Journal of Chronic Diseases.The article was published on 1974-09-01. It has received 545 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Framingham Risk Score & Coronary atherosclerosis.read more
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Blood pressure, stroke, and coronary heart disease: Part 1, prolonged differences in blood pressure: prospective observational studies corrected for the regression dilution bias
Stephen MacMahon,Richard Peto,J E Cutler,Rory Collins,P D Sorlie,James D. Neaton,Robert D. Abbott,Jon Godwin,Alan R. Dyer,Jeremiah Stamler +9 more
TL;DR: The DBP results suggest that for the large majority of individuals, whether conventionally "hypertensive" or "normotensive", a lower blood pressure should eventually confer a lower risk of vascular disease.
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Wine, alcohol, platelets, and the French paradox for coronary heart disease
Serge Renaud,M de Lorgeril +1 more
TL;DR: Data from Caerphilly, Wales, show that platelet aggregation, which is related to CHD, is inhibited significantly by alcohol at levels of intake associated with reduced risk of CHD.
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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Part I: General Considerations, the Epidemiologic Transition, Risk Factors, and Impact of Urbanization
TL;DR: An overview of the global burden of atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease is provided and overarching factors influencing variations in CVD by ethnicity and region and the influence of urbanization are described.
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Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric carcinoma among Japanese Americans in Hawaii.
Abraham M. Y. Nomura,Grant N. Stemmermann,Po-Huang Chyou,Ikuko Kato,Guillermo I. Perez-Perez,Martin J. Blaser +5 more
TL;DR: Infection with H. pylori is strongly associated with an increased risk of gastric carcinoma, and the association was strong even for men in whom the diagnosis was made 10 or more years after the serum sample was obtained.
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Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents
Emanuele Di Angelantonio,Shilpa N Bhupathiraju,David Wormser,Pei Gao,Pei Gao,Stephen Kaptoge,Amy Berrington de Gonzalez,Benjamin J Cairns,Rachel R. Huxley,Chandra L. Jackson,Grace Joshy,Sarah Lewington,JoAnn E. Manson,Neil Murphy,Alpa V. Patel,Jonathan M. Samet,Mark Woodward,Mark Woodward,Mark Woodward,Wei Zheng,Maigen Zhou,Narinder Bansal,Aurelio Barricarte,Brian D. Carter,James R. Cerhan,Rory Collins,George Davey Smith,Xianghua Fang,Oscar H. Franco,Jane Green,Jim Halsey,Janet S. Hildebrand,Keum Ji Jung,Rosemary J. Korda,Dale McLerran,Steven C. Moore,Linda M. O’Keeffe,Ellie Paige,Anna Ramond,Gillian K Reeves,Betsy Rolland,Carlotta Sacerdote,Naveed Sattar,Eleni Sofianopoulou,June Stevens,Michael J. Thun,Hirotsugu Ueshima,Ling Yang,Young Duk Yun,Peter Willeit,Peter Willeit,Emily Banks,Valerie Beral,Zhengming Chen,Susan M. Gapstur,Marc J. Gunter,Patricia Hartge,Sun Ha Jee,Tai Hing Lam,Richard Peto,John D. Potter,Walter C. Willett,Simon G. Thompson,John Danesh,Frank B. Hu +64 more
TL;DR: The associations of both overweight and obesity with higher all-cause mortality were broadly consistent in four continents and supports strategies to combat the entire spectrum of excess adiposity in many populations.
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Factors of Risk in the Development of Coronary Heart Disease—Six-Year Follow-up Experience: The Framingham Study
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A Longitudinal Study of Coronary Heart Disease
Oglesby Paul,Mark H. Lepper,William H. Phelan,G. Wesley Dupertuis,Anne Macmillan,Harlley Mckean,Heebok Park +6 more
TL;DR: No relation was encountered between body weight, mean blood sugar levels, lipoprotein lipase levels, or diet (other than coffee), and the development of coronary heart disease, and there was no association with job type and no certain relation to physical activity off the job.
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Risk factors in coronary heart disease. an evaluation of several serum lipids as predictors of coronary heart disease; the framingham study.
TL;DR: Attempt will be made to assess the relative efficacy of the various lipids as predictors of coronary heart disease and to determine their independent contribution to risk of the development of the disease.
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