Cardiovascular Disease
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Citation: Public Health Reviews 2011 33:BF03391639
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Preface: A Career in Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease: From Research to Results to Public Health Policy
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Preface: Reflections on a Career in Health Research, International Collaboration and Mentoring
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WHO MONICA Project: What Have We Learned and Where to Go from Here?
The decline in infectious diseases and a rise in chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD), underlies the health trajectory of the 20th century. While much was known about CVD, particularly myoc...
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Cardiovascular Disease and the Changing Face of Global Public Health: A Focus on Low and Middle Income Countries
Eighty percent of the global 17 million deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) occur in low and middle income countries (LMICs). The burden of CVD and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is expected to m...
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Cardiovascular Disease in Central and East Europe
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) contributes greatly to inequalities in health in Europe. The CVD death rate in Ukraine (the highest) is seven fold higher than in France (the lowest). There is also a striking diff...
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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Mortality in Russia: Challenges and Barriers
The article discusses the issue of the high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and extremely high mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, especially among people of working ages, in Russia. It just...
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From Framingham to North Karelia to U.S. Community-Based Prevention Programs: Negotiating Research Agenda for Coronary Heart Disease in the Second Half of the 20th Century
In the United States in 1948, the newly formed National Heart Institute (NHI) responded to what its data showed as a rising tide of coronary heart disease (CHD) by underwriting new approaches to the elucidatio...
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Steps Forward: Review and Recommendations for Research on Walkability, Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health
Built environments that support walking and other physical activities have the potential to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD). Walkable neighborhoods—characterized by density, land use diversity, and well-co...
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Food Synergy: The Key to Balancing the Nutrition Research Effort
Mediterranean-type diet patterns are consistently associated with reduced risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer in the general population. In contrast, several randomized controlled trials (RCT...
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Dietary Salt Intake and Cardiovascular Disease: Summarizing the Evidence
We present a narrative review of the literature linking dietary salt intake with cardiovascular health outcomes in humans and list the tools and strategies to reduce salt intake at the population level. There ...
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Tobacco Control in Industrialized Nations: The Limits of Public Health Achievement
In 1999 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General of the World Health Organization, painted a stark picture of the global toll in morbidity and mortality that could be expected from tobacco consumption. “Tobacco...
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Avoidable Deaths from Smoking: A Global Perspective
On current consumption patterns, about 400 million adults worldwide will be killed by smoking between 2010 and 2050. Most of these deaths will occur among smokers currently alive. At least half will die at age...
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Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Diseases
Social determinants of health can be understood as the social conditions in which individuals live and work; conditions that are shaped by the distribution of power, income and resources, as much on a global a...
Citation: Public Health Reviews 2011 33:BF03391652