IN the United States, coronary heart disease—principally myocardial infarction—accounts
for approximately 1 of every 3 deaths, or nearly 600,000 deaths each year. 1 Almost 50 …

In most countries, high intake of saturated fat is positively related to high mortality from
coronary heart disease (CHD). However, the situation in France is paradoxical in that there …

The authors assessed the reproducibility and validity of an expanded 131-item
semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire used in a prospective study among 51, 529 …

BACKGROUND An effect of diet in determining blood pressure is suggested by
epidemiological studies, but the role of specific nutrients is still unsettled. METHODS AND …

▪ Objective: To study the relation between alcohol intake and mortality in a large ambulatory
population with attention to causes of death and differences related to age, sex, race, and …

Intakes of alcohol and saturated fatty acids were determined through a dietary questionnaire
from 1600 men (aged 49–66 y) in the Caerphilly Prospective Heart Disease Study. Platelet …

Nobody mentions that the children of parents conscientious and careful enough to have their
children" immunized" will come out of any statistical test better than the children of the …

This paper reviews the epidemiological evidence on the association of alcohol consumption
with the major cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease) …

Two widely used criteria for determining whether an association between a risk factor and a
disease is causal are dose response and independence from other factors. Data from a …

A Bacillus subtilis open reading frame (ORF) encoding a predicted polypeptide of 156 amino
acids was subcloned and sequenced. The polypeptide was found to be homologous to …