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Classical risk factors and their impact on incident non-fatal and fatal myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality in southern Germany Results from the MONICA Augsburg cohort study 1984–1992

1998; Oxford University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1053/euhj.1998.1089

1522-9645

Ulrich Keil,

Nutritional Studies and Diet

Background The MONICA (Monitoring Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Diseases) project in Augsburg provides the first population-based cohort study in Germany to quantify the associations of the risk factors hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and smoking with incident non-fatal and fatal myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality, and to assess their impact at the population level.