Published in:
01-12-2009 | COMMENTARY
The dynamics of cardiovascular epidemiology
Author:
Dag S. Thelle
Published in:
European Journal of Epidemiology
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Issue 12/2009
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Excerpt
The epidemic of coronary heart disease struck first in the US early in the twentieth century, reached its summit in the 1950s and has thereafter abated [
1]. A similar pattern was observed in northern and mid-Europe, Australia and New Zealand about two decades later whereas the southern part of Europe was not hit to the same extent at that time. …