Alonso, A., Jacobs, D.R., Menotti, A., Nissinen, A., Dontas, A., Kafatos, A., ...
Previous research shows that cardiovascular risk factors in mid-adulthood could increase the risk of dementia later in life, but studies with very long follow-up are still scarce. We assessed whether...
Cooney, MT, Dudina, A, De Bacquer, Dirk, Wilhelmsen, L, Sans, S, Menotti, A, ...
Objective We aimed to clarify some previous inconsistencies regarding the role of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) as a CVD protective factor. Methods The SCORE dataset contained data on...
Comparison of the Framingham risk function-based (2008)
A. Menotti, P. E. Puddu, M. Lanti
coronary chart with risk function from an Italian population study
Boshuizen, H.C., Lanti, M., Menotti, A., Moschandreas, J., Tolonen, H., Nissinen, A., ...
The authors aimed to quantify the effects of current systolic blood pressure (SBP) and serum total cholesterol on the risk of mortality in comparison with SBP or serum cholesterol 25 years...
Menotti, A., Lanti, M., Kromhout, D., Blackburn, H., Jacobs, D., Nissinen, A., ...
Background: The aim was to investigate whether multivariate coefficients of serum cholesterol in the prediction of coronary heart disease (CHD) deaths were similar across different cultures in a...
Boshuizen, H.C., Lanti, M., Menotti, A., Moschandreas, J., Tolonen, H., Nissinen, A., ...
The authors aimed to quantify the effects of current systolic blood pressure (SBP) and serum total cholesterol on the risk of mortality in comparison with SBP or serum cholesterol 25 years...
Menotti, A., Lanti, M., Kromhout, D., Blackburn, H., Nissinen, A., Dontas, A., ...
Time trends in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality during a 40-year follow-up were studied in the Seven Countries Study. Thirteen cohorts of men aged 40¿59 at entry were enrolled in seven...
Bogers, RP, Bemelmans, WJE, Hoogenveen, RT, Boshuizen, HC, Woodward, M, Knekt, P, ...
Background: The extent to which moderate overweight (body mass index [BMI], 25.0-29.9 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and obesity (BMI,?30.0) are associated...
Bogers, R. P., Bemelmans, W. J. E., Hoogenveen, R. T., Boshuizen, H. C., Woodward, M., Khekt, P., ...
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Bogers, R. P., Bemelmans, W. J. E., Hoogenveen, R. T., Boshuizen, H. C., Woodward, M., Khekt, P., ...
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Bogers, R.P., Bemelmans, W.J.E., Hoogenveen, R.T., Boshuizen, H.C., Woodward, M., Knekt, P., ...
Background: The extent to which moderate overweight (body mass index [BMI], 25.0-29.9 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and obesity ( BMI, >= 30.0) are...
Bogers, R.P., Bemelmans, W.J.E., Hoogenveen, R.T., Boshuizen, H.C., Woodward, M., Knekt, P., ...
Background: The extent to which moderate overweight (body mass index [BMI], 25.0-29.9 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and obesity ( BMI, >= 30.0) are...
Bogers, RP, Bemelmans, WJE, Hoogenveen, RT, Boshuizen, HC, Woodward, M, Knekt, P, ...
Background: The extent to which moderate overweight (body mass index [BMI], 25.0-29.9 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and obesity (BMI,?30.0) are associated...
Bogers, R. P., Hoogenveen, R. T., Boshuizen, H., Woodward, M., Knekt, P., Van Dam, R. M., ...
The importance of overweight as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) remains unsettled. We estimated the relative risk (RR) for CHD associated with underweight (body mass index, BMI < 20...
Bogers, R. P., Hoogenveen, R. T., Boshuizen, H., Woodward, M., Knekt, P., Van Dam, R. M., ...
The importance of overweight as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) remains unsettled. We estimated the relative risk (RR) for CHD associated with underweight (body mass index, BMI < 20...
Menotti, A., Lanti, M., Kromhout, D., Kafatos, A., Nedeljkovic, S., Nissinen, A.
Aims: The purpose was to study the association of a single serum cholesterol measurement with early and late coronary and other cardiovascular deaths during 35 years of follow-up in samples of men...
Menotti, A., Lanti, M., Nedeljkovic, S., Nissinen, A., Kafatos, A., Kromhout, D.
Objective: To explore whether "typical" coronary heart disease (CHD) such as fatal myocardial infarction and sudden death relate to major cardiovascular risk factors in the same way as the "atypical"...
Panagiotakos, DB, Kromhout, D., Menotti, A., Chrysohoou, C., Dontas, A., Pitsavos, C., ...
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a dominant characteristic in the prediction of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). We aimed to evaluate the association of blood pressure measurements with CVD mortality among...
Estimation of ten-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in Europe: the SCORE project (2003)
CONROY, RM, PYORALA, K, FITZGERALD, AP, SANS, S, MENOTTI, A, De Backer, Gui, ...
Estimation of ten-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in Europe: the SCORE project (2003)
Conroy, R.M., Pyörälä, K., Fitzgerald, A.P., Sans, S., Menotti, A., De Backer, G., ...
Aims The SCORE project was initiated to develop a risk scoring system for use in the clinical management of cardiovascular risk in European clinical practice. Methods and results The project...
Predicting cardiovascular risk in the elderly in different European countries (2002)
Houterman, S., Boshuizen, H.C., Verschuren, W.M.M., Giampaoli, S., Nissinen, A., Menotti, A., ...
Aims The objective of this study was to develop risk functions for coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease mortality for elderly men in different European countries. Methods and Results The...
Cohort analysis of fruit and vegetable consumption and lung cancer mortality in European men (2001)
Rasanen, L., Fidanza, F., Nissinen, A.M., Menotti, A., ...
Our aim was to examine the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and lung cancer mortality in a cohort of European males. Around 1970, dietary intake of Finnish, Italian and Dutch...
Mulder, I., Smit, H.A., Jacobs, D.R., Menotti, A., Nissinen, A., ...
We examined the role of smoking and diet in the cross-cultural variation in lung-cancer mortality, using aggregated data of the Seven Countries Study, a follow-up study comprising 12,763 middle-aged...
Menotti, A, Puddu, P.E, Lanti, M
Aims The aim is to compare the coronary risk chart published by the European Task Force for Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease and produced using a Framingham risk function, with a risk function...
Visscher, T. L. S., Seidell, J. C., Menotti, A., Blackburn, H., Nissinen, A., Feskens, E. J. M., ...
This study investigated the relation between body mass index (BMI) and the all-cause mortality rate among 7,985 European men. Starting around 1960, when all men were aged 40–59 years, mortality was...
Buzina, R., Fidanza, F., Menotti, A., Kok, F.J., ...
Hand-grip strength predicts incident disability in non-disabled older men (1999)
Giampaoli, S, Ferrucci, L, Cecchi, F, Lo Noce, C, Poce, A, Dima, F, ...
Changes in population cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease deaths in seven countries (1997)
Menotti, A., Blackburn, H., Kromhout, D., Nissienen, A., Fidanza, F., Giampaoli, S., ...
Background Are trends in coronary heart disease deaths based on risk factor changes? Objective To study the relationship between trends in coronary deaths and changes in blood cholesterol in the...
Kromhout, D, Aravanis, C, Blackburn, H, Buzina, R, Fidanza, F, ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether flavonoid intake explains differences in mortality rates from chronic diseases between populations. DESIGN: Cross-cultural correlation study. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS:...
Dietary patterns and 20-year mortality in elderly men in Finland, Italy and the Netherlands. (1995)
Feskens, E.J.M., Rasanen, L., Fidanza, F., Nissinen, A., Menotti, A., ...
Hertog, M.G.L., Kromhout, D., Aravanis, C., Blackburn, H., Buzina, R., Fidanza, F., ...
To determine whether flavonoid intake explains differences in mortality rates from chronic diseases between populations. DESIGN: Cross-cultural correlation study. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Sixteen...
Kromhout, D., Menotti, A., Bloemberg, B., Aravanis, C., Blackburn, H., Buzina, R., ...
Background. In the Seven Countries Study associations between intake of individual fatty acids and dietary cholesterol were studied in relation to serum cholesterol and 25-year mortality from...
Attili, A. F., Carulli, N., Roda, E., Barbara, B., Capocaccia, L., Menotti, A., ...
This study was designed to obtain a general overview of gallstone disease in Italy. A total of 18 cohorts in 10 Italian regions were enrolled in this survey. Four cohorts were excluded from analysis...
Kromhout, D., Nedeljkovic, S.I., Grujic, M.Z., Ostojic, M.C., Keys, A., Menotti, A., ...
The Serbian cohorts of the Seven Countries Study were examined four times during a 25-year period. Large changes were observed in average serum cholesterol, blood pressure and the prevalence of...
Long-term prediction of coronary heart disease mortality in two rural Greek populations (1993)
DONTAS, A. S., MENOTTI, A., ARAVANIS, C., CORCONDILAS, A., LEKOS, D., SECCARECCIA, F.
In 1960–61 two pooled Greek rural populations totalling 1215 men aged 40–59 years were followed-up for 25 years. A Cox model analysis of fatal coronary events over 15 years showed that serum...
Letter: Serum cholesterol and long-term death rates from suicide, accidents, or violence. (1992)
Kromhout, D., Katan, M.B., Menotti, A., Keys, A., Bloemberg, B.P.
Serum cholesterol and long-term death rates from suicide, accidents, or violence (1992)
Bloemberg, B.P.M., Katan, M.B., Keys, A., Kromhout, D., Menotti, A.
Trends in Coronary Risk Factors in Italy (1992)
Menotti A (Istituto Superiore di Sanit�, Viale Regina Elena 299, 1-00161 Rome, Italy), Scanga M and the responsible investigators of the RF2, OB43 and MICOL Research Groups. Trends in coronary risk...
Twenty-Year Stroke Mortality and Prediction in Twelve Cohorts of the Seven Countries Study (1990)
MENOTTI, A, KEYS, A, BLACKBURN, H, ARAVANIS, C, DONTAS, A, FIDANZA, F, ...
Menotti A (Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Istituto Superiore di Sanit�, I-00161, Rome, Italy), Keys A, Blackburn H, Aravanis C, Dontas A, Fidanza F, Giampaoli S, Karvonen M, Kromhout...
Menotti A (Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Istituto Superiore di Sanita', Viale Regina Elena, 299 I-00161, Rome, Italy) and Seccareccia F. Cardiovascular risk factors predicting all...
CORONARY RISK FACTORS AND SURVIVAL PROBABILITY FROM CORONARY AND OTHER CAUSES OF DEATH (1987)
FARCHI, G., MENOTTI, A., CONTI, S.
Farchi G. (Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, 00161 Rome, Italy), A. Menotti, and S. Conti. Coronary risk factors and survival probability from coronary and...
Coronary Risk Factors and Excess Mortality from All Causes and Specific Causes (1983)
CONTI, S, FARCHI, G, MENOTTI, A
Data from two Italian rural cohorts of the Seven Countries Study are used to examine the relationship between level at entry to the study of some coronary risk factors and subsequent mortality. The...
MARIOTTI, S., CAPOCACCIA, R., FARCHI, G., MENOTTI, A., VERDECCHIA, A., KEYS, A.
The mean values of risk factors have been examined, together with expected incidences of coronary heart disease, in the North and South European cohorts of the Seven Countries Study. The...
Risk Factors Changes and Coronary Heart Disease in an Observational Study (1981)
FARCHI, G, CAPOCACCIA, R, VERDECCHIA, A, MENOTTI, A
Farchi G [Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome 00161, Italy], Capocaccia R, Verdecchia A, Menotti A and Keys A. Risk factors...
Lung function as a risk factor for coronary heart disease.
Keys, A, Aravanis, C, Blackburn, H, Djordjevic, B S, Dontas, A S, Fidanza, F, ...
Menditto, A, Morisi, G, Spagnolo, A, Menotti, A
The association of blood lead (B-Pb) concentration to blood pressure was investigated in men aged 55 to 75 years living in the Rome area, who had no history of exposure to lead in the workplace and...
Gualandri, V, Franceschini, G, Sirtori, C R, Gianfranceschi, G, Orsini, G B, Cerrone, A, ...
The AIMilano apoprotein variant is associated with a marked reduction of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and with increased triglyceridemia. In spite of the low HDL-cholesterol...
Lung function as a risk factor for coronary heart disease.
Keys, A, Aravanis, C, Blackburn, H, Djordjevic, B S, Dontas, A S, Fidanza, F, ...
Menditto, A, Morisi, G, Spagnolo, A, Menotti, A
The association of blood lead (B-Pb) concentration to blood pressure was investigated in men aged 55 to 75 years living in the Rome area, who had no history of exposure to lead in the workplace and...
Gualandri, V, Franceschini, G, Sirtori, C R, Gianfranceschi, G, Orsini, G B, Cerrone, A, ...
The AIMilano apoprotein variant is associated with a marked reduction of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and with increased triglyceridemia. In spite of the low HDL-cholesterol...
Mild myocardial infarction - A classification problem in epidemiologic studies
Hobbs, MST, Jamrozik, K, Thompson, PL, Parsons, RW, Hockey, RL, Armstrong, BK, ...
In studies assessing the trends in coronary events, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) MONICA Project (multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants of CArdiovascular disease), the...
Menotti, A, Lanti, M, Puddu, P, Kromhout, D
OBJECTIVE—A systematic reanalysis of 10 year coronary heart disease incidence data from the northern and the southern European cohorts of the seven countries study, to contribute indirectly to the...
Coronary risk factors predicting early and late coronary deaths
Objective: To study the time related association of a single measurement of coronary risk factors with coronary heart disease (CHD) deaths occurring during a very long follow up period in a...
Huijbregts, P., Feskens, E., Räsänen, L., Fidanza, F., Nissinen, A., Menotti, A., ...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of dietary pattern and mortality in international data. DESIGN: Cohort study with 20 years' follow up of mortality. SETTING: Five cohorts in Finland, the...
Tabak, C., Smit, H., Rasanen, L., Fidanza, F., Menotti, A., Nissinen, A., ...
BACKGROUND—Results of epidemiological studies relating individual dietary factors to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are inconsistent. To evaluate the cross sectional association of...
Altogether 99 029 men aged 40-59, employed on the Italian railroad system, were classified in three levels of physical activity at work and three levels of job responsibility and then followed up for...
Determinants of all causes of death in samples of Italian middle-aged men followed up for 25 years.
Menotti, A, Mariotti, S, Seccareccia, F, Torsello, S, Dima, F
A total of 1712 men aged 40 to 59 years in two rural cohorts of northern and central Italy have been followed up for 25 years after an entry examination in 1960. Forty one individual characteristics...
Menotti, A, Keys, A, Kromhout, D, Nissinen, A, Blackburn, H, Fidanza, F, ...
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aims were (1) to compare all cause mortality in population samples of different cultures; and (2) to cross predict fatal event by risk functions involving risk factors usually...
Seccareccia, F., Lanti, M., Menotti, A., Scanga, M.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relation of body mass index (BMI) to short-term mortality in a large Italian population sample. DESIGN: Within the Italian RIFLE pooling project, BMI was measured in...
Comparative total mortality in 25 years in Italian and Greek middle aged rural men
Dontas, A. S., Menotti, A., Aravanis, C., Ioannidis, P., Seccareccia, F.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Mortality over 25 years has been low in the Italian and very low in the Greek cohorts of the Seven Countries Study; factors responsible for this particularity were studied in detail....
Ischaemic heart disease in middle-aged men: Prevalence comparisons in Europe
Rose, G. A., Ahmeteli, M., Checcacci, L., Fidanza, F., Glazunov, I., De Haas, J., ...
The authors report the results of a collaborative study of the prevalence of ischaemic heart disease in 6 samples of middle-aged male clerical workers, drawn from 5 European countries and covering in...