Food consumption and its impact on cardiovascular disease: importance of solutions focused on the globalized food system: a report from the workshop convened by …

SS Anand, C Hawkes, RJ De Souza, A Mente… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - jacc.org
Major scholars in the field, on the basis of a 3-day consensus, created an in-depth review of
current knowledge on the role of diet in cardiovascular disease (CVD), the changing global …

Prevention of coronary heart disease by diet and lifestyle: evidence from prospective cross-cultural, cohort, and intervention studies

D Kromhout, A Menotti, H Kesteloot, S Sans - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
The Seven Countries Study began in 1958, and 12 763 men aged 40 to 59 years were
examined for risk factors for coronary heart disease. These men formed 16 cohorts in 7 …

Homocysteine determinants and the evidence to what extent homocysteine determines the risk of coronary heart disease

A De Bree, WMM Verschuren, D Kromhout… - Pharmacological …, 2002 - ASPET
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), especially coronary heart disease (CHD), are the most
important causes of death in industrialized countries. Increased concentrations of total …

The inverse relation between fish consumption and 20-year mortality from coronary heart disease

D Kromhout, EB Bosschieter… - New England journal of …, 1985 - Mass Medical Soc
The low death rate from coronary heart disease among the Greenland Eskimos has been
ascribed to their high fish consumption. We therefore decided to investigate the relation …

How should we define health?

M Huber, JA Knottnerus, L Green, H Van Der Horst… - Bmj, 2011 - bmj.com
The WHO definition of health as complete wellbeing is no longer fit for purpose given the
rise of chronic disease. Machteld Huber and colleagues propose changing the emphasis …

Flavonoid intake and long-term risk of coronary heart disease and cancer in the seven countries study

MGL Hertog, D Kromhout, C Aravanis… - Archives of internal …, 1995 - jamanetwork.com
Objective: To determine whether flavonoid intake explains differences in mortality rates from
chronic diseases between populations. Design: Cross-cultural correlation study …

The diet and 15-year death rate in the seven countries study

A Keys, A Mienotti, MJ Karvonen… - American journal of …, 1986 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Keys, A.(84060 Pioppi (SA), Italy), A. Menotti, MJ Karvonen, C. Aravanis, H.
Blackburn, R. Buzina, BS Djordjevlc, AS Dontas, F. Fldanza, MH Keys, D. Kromhout, S …

Mediterranean diet, lifestyle factors, and 10-year mortality in elderly European men and women: the HALE project

KTB Knoops, LC De Groot, D Kromhout, AE Perrin… - Jama, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
ContextDietary patterns and lifestyle factors are associated with mortality from all causes,
coronary heart disease, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer, but few studies have …

Intake of potentially anticarcinogenic flavonoids and their determinants in adults in The Netherlands

MGL Hertog, PCH Hollman, MB Katan, D Kromhout - 1993 - Taylor & Francis
Flavonoids are strong antioxidants that occur naturally in foods and can inhibit
carcinogenesis in rodents. Accurate data on population‐wide intakes of flavonoids are not …

Reproducibility and relative validity of the short questionnaire to assess health-enhancing physical activity

GCW Wendel-Vos, AJ Schuit, WHM Saris… - Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to determine reproducibility and relative validity of
the Short QUestionnaire to ASsess Health-enhancing physical activity (SQUASH) …