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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:624-625
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Letters to the Editor

Are cardiovascular disease trends driven by gadflies?

Susana Sans and Alun Evans

Programa Cronicat, Institute of Health Studies, Barcelona, Spain.

Sir—In the review of Epidemiology in the IJE in February the increasing obesity in the United States over the 1990s across, apparently, all subgroups of the population1 was mentioned. What is even more perplexing is that all this is happening while there is an inexorable decline in cardiovascular disease in that country. Hypotheses abound to explain the decline in cardiovascular disease observed in many countries. Ingster . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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