The diet and 15-year death rate in the seven countries study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 903-915

  Keys, Ancel ^a   Mienotti, Alessandro ^b   Karvonen, Mariti J ^c   Aravanis, Christ ^d   Blackburn, Henry ^a   Buzina, Ratko ^e   Djordjevic, B S ^f   Dontas, A S ^d   Fidanza, Flaminio ^g   Keys, Margaret H ^a   Kromhout, Daan ^h   Nedeljkovic, Srecko ^d   Punsar, Sven ^a   Seccareccia, Fulvia ^b   Toshima, Hironori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Institute of Public Health of Croatia ^*

^e Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Death rate; Diet; Neoplasms; Olelc acid; Populations

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AMERICAS; ASIA; BIOLOGY; CANCER; CAUSES OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR EFFECTS; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY--DETERMINANTS; EASTERN ASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GREECE; HEALTH; HEART DISEASES; ITALY; JAPAN; LIPIDS; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH REPORT; SCANDINAVIA; SMOKING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; CORONARY DISEASE; DIETARY FATS; ENERGY INTAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0022982012     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114480     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Keys A, Aravanis C, Blackburn H, et al. Epidemiological studies related to coronary heart disease: characteristics of men aged 40-59 in seven countries. Acta Med Scand [Suppl] 1967;460:1-392.
2. Keys A, ed. Coronary heart disease in seven countries. Circulation 1970; Suppl 1:1-211.
3. Keys A, with 15 collaborators. Seven countries— a multivariate analysis of death and coronary heart disease. A Commonwealth Fund Book. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980:1-381.
4. Keys A, Menotti A, Aravanis C, et al. The Seven Countries Study: 2,289 deaths in 15 years. Prev Med 1984;13:141-54.
5. Roine P, Pekkarinen M, Karvonen MJ. Dietary studies in connection with the epidemiology of coronary heart disease. Voeding 1964;25:384-93.
6. Buzina R, Ferber E, Keys A, et al. Diets of rural families in two regions of Yugoslavia. Voeding 1964;25:629-40.
7. Fidanza F, Fidanza-Alberti A, Ferro-Luzzi G, et al. Dietary studies in connection with the epidemiology of coronary heart disease: results in Italy. Voeding 1964;25:502-9.
8. Hartog C den, van Schaik, Th FSM, Dalderup ML, et al. The diet of volunteers participating in a long term epidemiological study of coronary heart disease at Zutphen, The Netherlands. Voeding 1965;26:184-208.
9. Keys A, Aravanis C, Sdrin H. The diets of middleaged men in two rural areas of Greece. Voeding 1966;27:575-86.
10. Keys A, Kimura N. Diets of middle-aged farmers in Japan. Am J Clin Nutr 1970;23:212-23.
11. Keys A. Dietary survey methods in studies on cardiovascular epidemiology. Voeding 1965;26: 464-82.
12. Keys A. Dietary survey methods. In: Levy RI, Rifkind BM, Dennis BH, et al., eds. Nutrition, lipids, and coronary heart disease—a global view. New York: Raven Press, 1979:1-23.
13. Fidanza F, Fidanza-Alberti A. Food and nutrient consumption of two population groups followed for ten years. Nutr Metab 1975;18:176-89.
14. Fidanza F, Fidanza-Alberti A, Coli R, et al. Food and nutrient consumption of two rural population groups followed by twenty years. Int J Vitam Nutr Res 1983;53:91-7.
15. Istituto Centrale di Statistica (ISTAT). Annuario di contabilita nazionale dal 1972 al 1975. Roma: ISTAT, 1976.
16. Kromhout D. Body weight, diet, and serum cholesterol in 871 middle-aged men during ten years of follow-up (the Zutphen Study). Am J Clin Nutr 1983;38:591-8.
17. Hasunen K, Pekkarinen M, Koskinen EH, et al. The food consumption and nutrient intake in Finland in 1969 to 1972. Kansanelakelaitoksen Julkaisuja (Helsinki) 1976:ML9.
18. Farchi G, Capocaccia R, Verdecchia A, et al. Risk factor changes and coronary heart disease in an observational study. Int J Epidemiol 1981;10:31- 40.
19. Menotti A, Capocaccia R, Farchi G, et al. Recent trends in coronary and other cardiovascular diseases in Italy. Cardiology 1985;72:88-96.
20. Aravanis C. Nutritional factors and cardiovascular diseases in the Greek Islands Heart Study. In: Lovenberg W, Yamori Y, eds. Nutritional preven tion of cardiovascular disease. New York: Academic Press, 1984:125-35.
21. Toshima H, Tashiro H, Sumie M, et al. Changes in risk factors and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity within Tanushimaru 1958-1982. In: Lovenberg W, Yamori Y, eds. Nutritional prevention of cardiovascular disease. New York: Academic Press, 1984:203-10.
22. Keys A, Kimura N, Kusukawa A, et al. Serum cholesterol in Japanese coal miners. A dietary experiment. Am J Clin Nutr 1957;5:245-50.
23. Tiskornia E, Forina M, Evangelisti F. Composizione chimica dell' olio di oliva e sue variazioni indotti dal processo di rettificazione. Rivista Ital Sostanze Grasse 1982;59:519-56.
24. Keys A, Anderson JT, Grande F. Serum cholesterol response to changes in the diet. I. Iodine value of dietary fat versus 2S-P. Metabolism 1965;14:747-58.
25. McMichael AJ, Haynes SG, Tyroler HA. Observations on the evaluation of occupational mortality data. J Occup Med 1975;17:128-31.
26. Fox AJ, Collier P. Low mortality rates in industrial cohort studies due to selection and survival for work in the industry. Br J Prev Soc Med 1976;39:225-30.
27. Stamler J. Population studies. In: Levy RI, Rifkind BM, Dennis BH, et al., eds. Nutrition, lipids, and coronary heart disease. New York: Raven Press, 1979:25-88.
28. Garcia-Palmieri M, Sorlie P, Tilloteon J, et al. Relationship of dietary intake to subsequent coronary heart disease in Puerto Rico. Am J Clin Nutr 1980;33:118-27.
29. Shekelle R, MacMillan A, Paul O, et al. Diet, serum cholesterol, and death from coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 1981;304:65-70.
30. McGee D, Reed D, Stemmennan G, et al. The relationship of dietary fat and cholesterol to mortality in 10 years: the Honolulu Heart Program. Int J Epidemiol 1985;14:97-105.
31. Liu J, Stamler J, Dyer A, et al. Statistical methods to assess and minimize the role of intra-individual variability in obscuring the relationship between dietary lipids and serum cholesterol. J Chronic Dis 1978;31:399-418.
32. Jacobs DR, Anderson JT, Blackburn H. Diet and serum cholesterol: do zero correlations negate the relationship? Am J Epidemiol 1979;110:77-87.