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Author: Abraham Kagan Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9780203092002 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
The Director of this study, Abraham Kagan, has comprehensively summarized the design and main finndings of the study in this book. The Honolulu Heart Program compared and contrasted ethnic Japanese men living in different cultural environments--Honolulu and mainland Japan--assessed their relative risk factors. The study supported many of the existing views on risk factors but also showed suprising trends. One of the trends shows moderate alcohol consumption is a preventative factor. In recent years the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases have become common knowledge. The recently completed Honolulu Heart Program is the largest targeted study to evaluate scientifically such risk factors.
Author: Abraham Kagan Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9780203092002 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
The Director of this study, Abraham Kagan, has comprehensively summarized the design and main finndings of the study in this book. The Honolulu Heart Program compared and contrasted ethnic Japanese men living in different cultural environments--Honolulu and mainland Japan--assessed their relative risk factors. The study supported many of the existing views on risk factors but also showed suprising trends. One of the trends shows moderate alcohol consumption is a preventative factor. In recent years the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases have become common knowledge. The recently completed Honolulu Heart Program is the largest targeted study to evaluate scientifically such risk factors.
Author: Abraham Kagan Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers ISBN: 9783718658039 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
The book covers the goals, design and findings of the Honolulu Heart Program which investigated risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The study focused on the ethnic Japanese population of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu which, while remaining ethnically distinct, has adopted a Western lifestyle. The examined cohort was compared to similar cohorts in Japan and California to evaluate the effect of lifestyle on the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309175569 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago. Although survival has improved for all racial and ethnic groups, strong differences persist, both in life expectancy and in the causes of disability and death at older ages. This book examines trends in mortality rates and selected causes of disability (cardiovascular disease, dementia) for older people of different racial and ethnic groups. The determinants of these trends and differences are also investigated, including differences in access to health care and experiences in early life, diet, health behaviors, genetic background, social class, wealth and income. Groups often neglected in analyses of national data, such as the elderly Hispanic and Asian Americans of different origin and immigrant generations, are compared. The volume provides understanding of research bearing on the health status and survival of the fastest-growing segment of the American population.
Author: H. Kesteloot Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400988931 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 512
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Hypertension is a major health problem and contrary to ischemic heart disease, which occurs only in Western countries, its distribution is almost universal. It is this universality that has prompted us to gather, in this book, data on arterial blood pressure obtained in different parts of the world. Moreover, cerebrovascular mortality, which is the commonest cause of death from hypertension, is decreasing in most Western countries and in Japan, and the reasons for this are still far from clear. A major problem in comparing blood pressure values from different centers is the standardization of the measurement. Complete standardization will never be achieved if one takes into account the numerous factors that may influence blood pressure in epidemiological studies. Whether blood pressures are measured by doctors or by technicians, are recorded at home, in the working place or in a hospital, in sitting, standing or supine position, and is taken during the same examination-all of these whether a blood sample factors can influence blood pressure measurement. But meals, time of day (blood pressure being higher in the evening), heart rate, cuff size, stethoscope used, digit preference, month of year, temperature, etc., can equally influence the measurement. Home reading of arterial blood pressure at standardized times is probably the best answer to all of these problems and has been used with gratifying results in a comparative study between Belgium and Korea.
Author: Loretta D. Ulincy Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 0788120239 Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Lists selected references of monographs, journal articles, conference proceedings and abstracts, dissertations, and audiovisuals published from January 1990 through March 1995. Foreign language material is included. Arranged in subject categories following the "Healthy People 2000" initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Serves as a useful resource for health professionals and designed for those who are interested in gaining a better understanding of health issues.
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