Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease
M. Ezzati, A. D. Lopez, A. Rodgers, S. Van der Hoorn, C. J. Murray

Here is the first large systematic attempt to identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease globally and regionally contributing to morbidity and mortality...

European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: executive summary. Fourth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and other societies on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
I. Graham, D. Atar, K. Borch-Johnsen, et al; Representatives of Nine Societies and Invited Experts

The Fourth Joint task force recommendations cover 112 pages of text with a no less than 33-page summary...

Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study
S. Yusuf, S. Hawken, S. Ounpuu, T. Dans, A. Avezum, F. Lanas, M. McQueen, A. Budaj, P. Pais, J. Varigos, L. Lisheng; INTERHEART Study Investigator

In modern medicine bigger is always better. Casecontrol studies have always been easy to perform and provide valuable preliminary data that are later substantiated and improved through prospective cohort studies...

Risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in individuals with diabetes mellitus, impaired fasting glucose, and impaired glucose tolerance: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab)
E. L. Barr, P. Z. Zimmet, T. A. Welborn, D. Jolley, D. J. Magliano, D. W. Dunstan, A .J. Cameron, T. Dwyer, H. R. Taylor, A. M. Tonkin, et al

Diabetes mellitus increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality...

Sick individuals and sick populations
G. Rose

Although, at first sight the republication in the same journal of an article first published 16 years ago might be labeled as autoplagiarism, this might also be seen as proof that classics never age..

Estimation of ten-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in Europe: the SCORE project
R. M. Conroy, K. Pyörälä, A. P. Fitzgerald, S. Sans, A. Menotti, G. De Backer, D. De Bacquer, P. Ducimetière, P. Jousilahti, U. Keil et al; SCORE Project Group

One of the things about The European– American cultural wars is the competition it engenders...

Clinical reality of coronary prevention guidelines: a comparison of EUROASPIRE I and II in nine countries. EUROASPIRE I and II Group. European Action on Secondary Prevention by Intervention to Reduce Events
EUROASPIRE I and II Group; European Action on Secondary Prevention by Intervention to Reduce Events

It is all very well having guidelines, but are they being implemented? Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) are supposedly the top priority for preventive cardiology...

Prediction of lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease by risk factor burden at 50 years of age
D. M. Lloyd-Jones, E. P. Leip, M. G. Larson, R. B. D'Agostino, A. Beiser, P. W. Wilson, P. A. Wolf, D. Levy

This paper begins with the depressing message that despite 40 years of intervention cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide...

Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies
S. Lewington, R. Clarke, N. Qizilbash, R. Peto, R. Collins; Prospective Studies Collaboration

The fashion these days is to integrate studies and meta-analyze them by pooling the results and not necessarily the original data...

An updated coronary risk profile. A statement for health professionals
K. M. Anderson, P. W. Wilson, P. M. Odell, W. B. Kannel

No one ever reads obscure journals, especially in the days of impact factors, citation indices, h-scores, and other publication metrics...