… a survey of 7371 men aged 40 to 59 from 24 British towns. After … , 316 of these men had major
ischemic heart disease, and 66 … While NHANES II data on 2254 US men indicate a slightly …

… In Britain we know the distribution of serum total cholesterol in middle aged men,'2 we know
… that most British men have concentrations that carry at least a twofold risk of ischaemic heart …

… Of the 7142 men, 1766 men had died or developed a major cardiovascular event (heart
attack or stroke) or diabetes. The 15-year probability of surviving free of these major events in …

… of heart attack persists in men with pre-existing ischaemic heart … as it is in men without
evidence of ischaemic heart disease. … We present the results of the British Regional Heart Study, a …

… Men who were ex-cigarette-smokers at screening had a greater than two-fold risk of a
heart attack relative to men who had never smoked cigarettes (fig 1). Men who had …

… risk of heart attack in middle-aged men, drawn from general practices in 24 British towns,
which are representative of the socioeconomic distribution of men in Great Britain. It includes …

… The attack-rate in men aged 45-64 years was 1 per 100 per annum but the recurrence-rate
in survivors was 1 per 100 per month. Immigrants from Asia had more than the average, and …

… Men who gained 4–10% bodyweight had the lowest rate of heart attack, although this was …
The men who lost weight had an increased risk of heart attack, which after adjustment (for age…

… had ever been told by a doctor that they had angina or heart attack (myocardial infarction,
coronary thrombosis)—ie, they had recall of ischaemic heart disease; or (c) they had …

… disease or stroke, we recently showed that the relation between physical activity and the
risk of heart attack differs in men with and withoutischaemic heart disease.2 The figure shows …