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 | Zendy

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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

Author(s) -

Ulrich Keil

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1053/euhj.1998.1089

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , myocardial infarction , population , cohort , risk factor , cohort study , confidence interval , rate ratio , incidence (geometry) , demography , environmental health , sociology , physics , optics

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.

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