Abstract
This chapter presents a historical overview of research on the six established major risk factors for coronary heart disease: adverse diet, diet-related above-optimal levels of serum total cholesterol (TC), blood pressure (BP), overweight/obesity, diabetes mellitus (DM), and cigarette smoking. These have been shown to be centrally involved in the multifactorial causation of severe atherosclerotic disease, its complications, and its multiple clinical manifestations - first and foremost the epidemic of CHD in Western industrialized countries.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology |
Subtitle of host publication | From Aetiology to Public Health |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191724114 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198525738 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2009 |
Keywords
- Blood pressure
- CHD
- Cigarette smoking
- Coronary heart disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Obesity
- Risk factors
- Serum total cholesterol
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology