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Life Styles and Life Style Related Major Risk Factors: Their Combined Impact in Producing Epidemic Cardiovascular Disease, and the Potential for Prevention

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Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

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This paper focuses on the combined impact on populations of four etiologically significant, widely prevalent, modifiable major risk factors for the cardiovascular diseases (CVD): “rich” diet, diet-related above-optimal serum total cholesterol (TC) and blood pressure (BP), and cigarette smoking (CIG), contemporary mass “...disturbances of human culture” (Virchow) (1) producing epidemic CVD.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

    Antonio M. Gotto Jr.

  2. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Claude Lenfant

  3. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Rodolfo Paoletti  & Maurizio Soma (Assistant Editor) &  (Assistant Editor)

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Stamler, J. et al. (1992). Life Styles and Life Style Related Major Risk Factors: Their Combined Impact in Producing Epidemic Cardiovascular Disease, and the Potential for Prevention. In: Gotto, A.M., Lenfant, C., Paoletti, R., Soma, M. (eds) Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease. Medical Science Symposia Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2700-4_3

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