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Filter by:To continue surveillance of cardiovascular disease risk factors in the seven-county area of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
To further clarify the concept of coronary-prone behavior and to develop methods of assessing coronary-prone behavior. Specifically, to revise the component scoring system for Potential for Hostility in the Structured Interviews measure of Type A behavior.
To conduct a large-scale demonstration and education project designed to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of long-term community health education directed toward lowering cardiovascular disease risk, morbidity, and mortality. Targeted risk factors included general lifestyle, smoking, blood pressure, nutrition and weight, and exercise. The program was evaluated by biennial cross-sectional independent surveys, longitudinal studies, and morbidity and mortality surveillance.
To examine environmental and familial correlates of childhood blood pressure in order to predict elevated blood pressure in young adulthood. Also, to investigate the phenomena of tracking of blood pressure and obesity from childhood to young adulthood.
To continue the comprehensive research program on the epidemiology of cardiovascular and other major chronic diseases, including cancer and diabetes, in four Chicago population cohorts. The four cohorts include the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry cohort, the Peoples Gas Company cohort first examined in 1958-1959, the Peoples Gas Company cohort first examined in 1959-1962, and the Western Electric Company cohort.
To determine the genetics and epidemiology of different types of early familial coronary disease. Accurate markers of major gene syndromes for early coronary disease were identified using a genetic segregation and linkage study of lipids, lipoproteins, apolipoproteins, and DNA probes in 36 large Utah pedigrees.
To continue a longitudinal study of blood pressure and blood pressure correlates in a population of 1,140 young adults, first seen in 1973 as adolescents, aged 14-19 years.
To document the role of the genotype in the cardiovascular and metabolic responses to aerobic exercise-training and the contribution of inherited factors in the changes brought about by regular exercise for several cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors. A consortium of laboratories from five institutions in the United States and Canada are carrying out this study.
To identify and evaluate genetic and non-genetic determinants of coronary heart disease (CHD), atherosclerosis, and their risk factors in ongoing population-based epidemiology studies. The multicenter study was conducted in three phases which were: Phase I, the family history component: Phase II, the clinical examination and follow-up component; and Phase III, the molecular genetic and genetic epidemiology studies component.
To conduct a multicenter study of the relationship between insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors in a tri-ethnic (African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white) population aged 40 to 69 years at baseline. Also, to identify the genetic determinants of insulin resistance and visceral adiposity.