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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 130, No. 3: 431-445
Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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POLAND AND US COLLABORATIVE STUDY ON CARDIOVASCULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY

I. INTRODUCTION AND BASELINE FINDINGS

STEFAN RYWIK1, JAN SZNAJD2, O. DALE WILLIAMS3,, ANDRZEJ PAJAK2, HALINA PRZESTALSKA-MALKIN1, RATNA P. THOMAS3, WITOLD KUPSC1, PIOTR MISIOWIEC2, SANDRA H. IRVING3, MARZANNA MAGDON2, HENRYKA WAGROWSKA1 and JAMES R. ABERNATH3

1Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases, National Institute of Cardiology Warsaw, Poland.
2' Department of Biochemical Diagnostics and Metabolic Diseases In-Patient Clinic, Nicolaus Copernicus Medical Academy Academy, Cracow, Poland.
3Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Reprint requests to Dr. O. Dale Williams, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

The Poland-US Agreement for Health Cooperation has as its goal the sharing of scientific information in cardiovascular disease epidemiology between the two countries. Pattems of cardiovascular disease and identification of risk factors were investigated through two large epidemiologic studies, the Pol-Monica Study in Poland and the US Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study in the United States. These two studies are described with regard to methodological issues, comparability of data collection procedures, and demographic and behavioral characteristics of the two populations involved. Mean blood pressure, lipids, and body mass indices of participants in these studies are also compared.

blood pressure; body height; body weight; cardiovascular diseases; cholesterol; epidemiologic methods; lipids


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