Cohort Profile: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

T. Raitakari, Olli; Juonala, Markus; Rönnemaa, Tapani; Keltikangas‐Järvinen, Liisa; Räsänen, Leena; Pietikäinen, Matti; Hutri‐Kähönen, Nina; Taittonen, Leena; Jokinen, Eero; Marniemi, Jukka; Jula, Antti; Telama, R.; Kähönen, Mika; Lehtimäki, Terho; Akerblom, H; Viikari, Jorma

doi:10.1093/ije/dym225

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Cohort Profile: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

Published in International Journal of Epidemiology • Feb 8, 2008

Authors:

Olli T. Raitakari

Markus Juonala

Tapani Rönnemaa

Abstract

In Finland, coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence was very high in the 1960s and 1970s.1 In line with this high incidence, the Seven Countries Study showed that the level of serum cholesterol in Finns was also the highest among the investigated countries in the 1960s.2 Because several studies indic...

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Medicine

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Cohort study

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