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Cardiovascular disease risk factors: improvements in knowledge and behavior in the 1980s.

Author(s) -

Erica Frank,

Marilyn A. Winkleby,

Stephen P. Fortmann,

J W Farquhar

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.83.4.590

Subject(s) - medicine , environmental health , risk factor , disease , cross sectional study , gerontology , demography , pathology , sociology

This study surveyed 4158 adults residing in two control cities of the Stanford Five-City Project. Analysis of five cross-sectional surveys (conducted in 1979 through 1990) demonstrated improvements in respondents' general cardiovascular disease risk factor knowledge and behaviors. Cholesterol-related knowledge and behavior showed particularly marked improvements.

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