Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: Diet, Lifestyle and Risk Factors in the Seven Countries Study

by Alessandro Menotti, Henry Blackburn, Daan Kromhout, et al.

Book Overview

In the 1940s I was struck by reports about many apparently healthy middle-aged men who dropped dead instantly from heart attacks. The causes of these sudden deaths were unknown. I was interested to discover physio-chemical characteristics of individuals with predictive value for the occurrence of these fatal heart attacks. The discovery ofpreventive variables would point ways to prevent this disease. In order to find relationships between mode of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140207123X
• ISBN13: 9781402071232
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"