Clinical and Pathological Reports

Born in 1763/4 in the north of Ireland, Samuel Black attended Edinburgh University in the age of the Scottish Enlightenment, graduating MD in 1786...

Cardiopathies par athérosclérose coronarienne [Cardiac disease caused by coronary atherosclerosis]
J. Lenègre

Jean Lenègre was born in Paris in 1904, pursued his medical career there, dying suddenly while walking in the Latin Quarter in 1972, despite attempted resuscitation...

The effect of dietary fats on the blood lipids and their relation to ischaemic heart disease
B. Bronte-Stewart

Brian Bronte-Stewart graduated and worked in Cape Town, South Africa, before going to St Mary’s Hospital in London to join Sir George Pickering,..

Coronary heart disease in seven countries. American Heart Association Monograph No. 29
A. Keys, ed

Ancel Keys, born in 1904, died in 2004. Peripatetic for the first third of his life, his outstanding research followed appointment age 36 to the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, at the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis football stadium (address: Stadium Gate 27)...

How to Eat Well and Stay Well the Mediterranean Way
A. Keys, M. Keys

An advantage of an eminent and lucid old age is one’s reminiscences, but the retrospectoscope shows rosey tints, even distortion..

Factors associated with cardiac mortality in developed countries with particular reference to the consumption of wine
A. S. St Leger, A. L. Cochrane, F. Moore

A Cambridge undergraduate in the 1930s, Archie Cochrane’s placard in a demonstration demanding socialized medicine had the word “effective” qualifying the statement that medical care should be free...

Coronary heart disease in middle-aged Frenchmen. Comparisons between Paris Prospective Study, Seven Countries Study, and Pooling Project
P. Ducimetière, J. L. Richard, F. Cambien, R. Rakotovao, J. R. Claude

Research on common diseases should attract professional and public interest and good funding...

Nutrients, platelet function and composition in nine groups of French and British farmers
S. Renaud, R. Morazain, F. Godsey, E. Dumont, C. Thevenon, J. L. Martin, F. Mendy

Serge Renaud, the first author, lived with his parents and grandparents on a vineyard near Bordeaux, France, interrupting his medical training after two years in 1951 to go to Canada where medical research was better funded...

Myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project. Registration procedures, event rates and case-fatality rates in 38 populations from 21 countries in four continents
H. Tunstall-Pedoe, K. Kuulasmaa, P. Amouyel, D. Arveiler, A. M. Rajakangas, A. Pajak; WHO MONICA Project

Before MONICA (MONItoring of trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease), the epidemiology of coronary heart disease was patchy, depending on local enthusiasm, or unusual disease rates, to precipitate research...

Autres pays, autres coeurs? Dietary patterns, risk factors and ischaemic heart disease in Belfast and Toulouse
A. E. Evans, J. B. Ruidavets, E. E. McCrum, J. P. Cambou, R. McClean, P. Douste-Blazy, D. McMaster, A. Bingham

One advantage of large epidemiological studies is that they may be used to answer questions for which they may not have been designed...