Results of the Seven Countries Study were crucial to the concept of population causes, that is, the mass phenomena involved in the genesis of coronary heart disease, and which influence widespread individual and species susceptibility. Where environments are unfavourable one finds maximal exhibition of coronary risk and a heavy population disease burden. Where favourable, individual (genetic) susceptibility is attenuated. This concept developed from the Seven Countries study design that combined, for the first time, a population and an individual approach. The study was realised trough effective collaboration established among clinicians, epidemiologists and nutritionists from Europe, the U.S.A., and Japan.
Implications: The Seven Countries Study has played a central role in the population strategy of heart disease prevention and health promotion, complementing traditional medical strategies. It contributed to the notion that major risk factors universally predict individual risk. Cultures as well as individuals were found to differ greatly in absolute risk of a coronaryevent at any level of single or combined risk factors, presumably due to different duration of risk exposure, different gene-environment interactions, and to factors not yet known. Intervention strategy is therefore best determined by absolute risk. Finally, the medical, public health, and nutrition community, as well as agribusiness internationally, have been profoundly influenced by the Seven Countries Study in their recommendations, toward more healthy eating patterns.
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Results of the Seven Countries Study were crucial to the concept of population causes, that is, the mass phenomena involved in the genesis of coronary heart disease, and which influence widespread individual and species susceptibility. Where environments are unfavourable one finds maximal exhibition of coronary risk and a heavy population disease burden. Where favourable, individual (genetic) susceptibility is attenuated. This concept developed from the Seven Countries study design that combined, for the first time, a population and an individual approach. The study was realised trough effective collaboration established among clinicians, epidemiologists and nutritionists from Europe, the U.S.A., and Japan.
Implications: The Seven Countries Study has played a central role in the population strategy of heart disease prevention and health promotion, complementing traditional medical strategies. It contributed to the notion that major risk factors universally predict individual risk. Cultures as well as individuals were found to differ greatly in absolute risk of a coronaryevent at any level of single or combined risk factors, presumably due to different duration of risk exposure, different gene-environment interactions, and to factors not yet known. Intervention strategy is therefore best determined by absolute risk. Finally, the medical, public health, and nutrition community, as well as agribusiness internationally, have been profoundly influenced by the Seven Countries Study in their recommendations, toward more healthy eating patterns.
Imprint | Springer-Verlag New York |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 243 |
Release date | September 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | September 2002 |
Authors | Daan Kromhout, Alessandro Menotti, Henry Blackburn |
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 267 |
Edition | 2002 ed. |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-7123-2 |
Barcode | 9781402071232 |
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LSN | 1-4020-7123-X |