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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 5 : 486-488
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CLASSICAL RISK FACTORS ON MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION BY RATE ADVANCEMENT PERIODS"

A. Pfahlberg and O. Gefeller

Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Waldstr. 6 D-91054 Erlangen, Germany


   INTRODUCTION
 
Liese et al. (1Go) report on interesting results concerning the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on myocardial infarction in terms of the associated rate advancement period for these factors. In addition to analyzing data from the Monitoring Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Diseases, Augsburg, Germany (MONICA Augsburg), cohort (2Go), they present a reanalysis of three other cohort studies (3GoGo–5Go) with respect to the rate advancement period associated with cigarette smoking.

The concept of the risk and rate advancement period as a novel approach to translate risk factor impact on disease occurrence into a time period was developed in a methodological paper 8 years ago . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Angela D. Liese, Hermann Brenner and Hans-Werner Hense

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208
The German Centre for Research on Ageing at the University of Heidelberg 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine University of Münster 48129 Münster, Germany


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RE: "ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF CLASSICAL RISK FACTORS ON MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION BY RATE ADVANCEMENT PERIODS"
Am. J. Epidemiol., September 1, 2001; 154(5): 486 - 488.
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