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Open AccessRelation of raw and cooked vegetable consumption to blood pressure: the INTERMAP Study
Inverse associations have been reported of overall vegetable intake to blood pressure (BP); whether such relations prevail for both raw and cooked vegetables has not been examined. Here we report cross-section...
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Hypertension, not essential: an epidemic preventable by improved eating patterns
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Dietary intake and urinary excretion of selenium in the Japanese adult population: the INTERMAP Study Japan
This study is to examine the relationship between dietary selenium intake and 24-h urinary selenium excretion in Japanese population samples participating in the INTERMAP Study.
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DEDICATION
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INTERMAP Appendix Tables, Tables of Contents (Tables B)
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INTERMAP Appendix Tables, Tables of Contents (Tables A)
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Background to the INTERMAP Study of nutrients and blood pressure
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INTERMAP: the dietary data—process and quality control
The aim of this report is to describe INTERMAP standardized procedures for assessing dietary intake of 4680 individuals from 17 population samples in China, Japan, UK and USA: Based on a common Protocol and Manua...
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Higher blood pressure in middle-aged American adults with less education—role of multiple dietary factors: The INTERMAP Study
Extensive evidence exists that an inverse relation between education and blood pressure prevails in many adult populations, but little research has been carried out on reasons for this finding. A prior goal of...
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INTERMAP: background, aims, design, methods, and descriptive statistics (nondietary)
Blood pressure (BP) above optimal (⩽120/⩽80 mmHg) is established as a major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor. Prevalence of adverse BP is high in most adult populations; until recently research has bee...
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Nutrient intakes of middle-aged men and women in China, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States in the late 1990s: The INTERMAP Study
The purpose of the study was to compare nutrient intakes among Chinese, Japanese, UK, and US INTERMAP samples, and assess possible relationships of dietary patterns to differential patterns of cardiovascular d...
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Dietary intake in male and female smokers, ex-smokers, and never smokers: The INTERMAP Study
This report examines dietary intakes in smokers, ex-smokers, and never smokers in INTERMAP. The 4680 participants aged 40–59 years—from 17 population samples in four countries (China, Japan, UK, USA)—provided ...
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Making prevention and management of hypertension work
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Blood pressure and diurnal variation in sodium, potassium, and water excretion
The objective of this study was to examine associations of blood pressure (BP) with ratios of overnight to 24-h urinary excretion of sodium, potassium, and water. Each of 125 men 27–64 years of age, not taking...
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Life Styles and Life Style Related Major Risk Factors: Their Combined Impact in Producing Epidemic Cardiovascular Disease, and the Potential for Prevention
This paper focuses on the combined impact on populations of four etiologically significant, widely prevalent, modifiable major risk factors for the cardiovascular diseases (CVD): “rich” diet, diet-related abov...
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Multiple Risk Factors in an Italian Population in the 1980s: The Gubbio Study
In the 1950s, World Health Organization data indicated that for Italy and several other Mediterranean countries, death from coronary he art disease (CHD) was much less common than in Northern Europe or the U.S...
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Concluding remarks
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Type A Behavior and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial
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The Natural History of Coronary Heart Disease: Prognostic Factors After Recovery from Myocardial Infarction in 2789 Men
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The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial
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