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IJE Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(2):246-247; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh331
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Commentary: Geoffrey Rose's thinking about coronary artery disease

Ole Færgeman

Professor of Preventive Cardiology, Aarhus Amtssygehus University Hospital, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. E-mail: ole.faergeman@aas.auh.dk

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Two decades ago, Geoffrey Rose was clear about the essentials of atherosclerotic coronary disease. It is insidious, treatable, the source of endless puzzlement and, most importantly, eradicable.

In 1982 he related measurements of cholesterol and blood pressure which had been made in 40- to 59-year-old men in the Seven Countries Study (Finland, Greece, Holland, Italy, Japan, the USA, and Yugoslavia) to rates of death from coronary heart disease 5, 10 and 15 years later in the corresponding but much larger age cohorts identifiable from national mortality statistics.1 He showed persuasively . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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