ArticleEuropean journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology2008
Homogeneity in the relationship of serum cholesterol to coronary deaths across different cultures: 40-year follow-up of the Seven Countries Study.
Article in European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Reduction in cardiovascular risk using a proactive multifactorial intervention is consistent among patients residing in Pacific Asian and non-Pacific Asian regions: a CRUCIAL trial subanalysis.Vascular health and risk management · 2014 · on this mapTrial
- Potential Similarity of Serum Cholesterol Multivariate Coefficients in the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Across Populations: A Review From the Seven Countries Study.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Healthier Lipid Profiles of Japanese Adults, Especially in Women with Elevated High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (HDL-C), Are Associated with Low HDL-C Peroxide Content.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Re-calibration of coronary risk prediction: an example of the Seven Countries Study.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- A Contemporary Review of the Relationship between Red Meat Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk.International journal of preventive medicine · 2017Review
- Association between worldwide dietary and lifestyle patterns with total cholesterol concentrations and DALYs for infectious and cardiovascular diseases: an ecological analysis.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2015Article
- Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death: current status and challenges for the future.European heart journal · 2014Article
- DASH eating pattern is associated with favorable left ventricular function in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.Journal of the American College of Nutrition · 2012Article
- A review of the reporting and handling of missing data in cohort studies with repeated assessment of exposure measures.BMC medical research methodology · 2012Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe aim was to investigate whether multivariate coefficients of serum cholesterol in the prediction of coronary heart disease (CHD) deaths were similar across different cultures in a long-term follow-up.
designThirteen cohorts for a total of 10,157 men aged 40-59 years at entry, enrolled in seven countries (USA, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Japan) were repeatedly examined and followed up for 40 years.
methodsSerum cholesterol measured at baseline, and then on repeated occasions, was studied, using multivariate models, in relation with the occurrence of CHD deaths during a 40-year follow-up.
resultsHomogeneity of multivariate serum cholesterol coefficients was found considering cholesterol levels at baseline, as average of up to three measurements during the first 10 years, as average of up to six measurements in 35 years, using the time-dependent technique with up to three measurements in 10 years, and with up to six measurement in 35 years.
conclusionThe strength of the association between serum cholesterol and CHD death seems homogeneous across different cultures characterized by different levels of serum cholesterol and different absolute risk of CHD death.
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