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A century of trends in adult human height

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A genome-wide association study identifies LIPA as a susceptibility gene for coronary artery disease

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A genomic approach to therapeutic target validation identifies a glucose-lowering GLP1R variant protective for coronary heart disease

scientific article published on June 2016

A multiple biomarker risk score for guiding clinical decisions using a decision curve approach

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

A prospective study on reproducibility of the spread of spinal anesthesia using plain 0.5% bupivacaine

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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Finland--baseline data from the FINMONICA AMI register in 1983-1985.

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Adiposity as a cause of cardiovascular disease: a Mendelian randomization study

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Adjusting for selective non-participation with re-contact data in the FINRISK 2012 survey

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Age- and sex-specific causal effects of adiposity on cardiovascular risk factors

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

Alcoholic beverage preference and diabetes incidence across Europe: the Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES) project.

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

An agenda-setting paper on data sharing platforms: euCanSHare workshop

scientific article published in 2021

An overview of the European Health Examination Survey Pilot Joint Action

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Analysis of the relationship between total cholesterol, age, body mass index among males and females in the WHO MONICA Project

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Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 1 June 2019

Application of non-HDL cholesterol for population-based cardiovascular risk stratification: results from the Multinational Cardiovascular Risk Consortium

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Assessment of blood pressure measurement quality in the baseline surveys of the WHO MONICA project.

scientific article published on December 1995

Assessment of causality of natriuretic peptides and atrial fibrillation and heart failure: a Mendelian randomization study in the FINRISK cohort

scientific article published on 23 August 2020

Association of Circulating Metabolites With Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in a European Population: Results From the Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe (BiomarCaRE) Consortium

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Association of Repeatedly Measured High-Sensitivity-Assayed Troponin I with Cardiovascular Disease Events in a General Population from the MORGAM/BiomarCaRE Study

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BiomarCaRE: rationale and design of the European BiomarCaRE project including 300,000 participants from 13 European countries

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Blood pressure levels in the 41 populations of the WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published in November 1997

Blood pressure profiles, and awareness and treatment of hypertension in Europe – results from the EHES Pilot Project

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Cardiac Troponin I and Incident Stroke in European Cohorts: Insights From the BiomarCaRE Project

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Case-cohort design in practice - experiences from the MORGAM Project

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Challenges in standardization of blood pressure measurement at the population level

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Changes in CVD Incidence and Mortality Rates, and Life Expectancy: North Karelia and National

scientific article published on June 2016

Changes in cancer incidence in North Karelia, an area with a comprehensive preventive cardiovascular programme

scientific article published in January 1990

Changes in cigarette smoking among adults in 35 populations in the mid-1980s. WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published on January 1998

Changes in estimated coronary risk in the 1980s: data from 38 populations in the WHO MONICA Project. World Health Organization. Monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular diseases

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Circulating Levels of Interleukin 1-Receptor Antagonist and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Meta-Analysis of Six Population-Based Cohorts

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Coding Variation in ANGPTL4, LPL, and SVEP1 and the Risk of Coronary Disease

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Cohort Profile: The National FINRISK Study

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Cold periods and coronary events: an analysis of populations worldwide

scientific article published on July 2005

Combined Effects of Thrombosis Pathway Gene Variants Predict Cardiovascular Events

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Combined Influence of Waist and Hip Circumference on Risk of Death in a Large Cohort of European and Australian Adults

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Combined effect of educational status and cardiovascular risk factors on the incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke in European cohorts: Implications for prevention.

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Combined effects of thrombosis pathway gene variants predict cardiovascular events

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Comparison of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in European Population Cohorts for Predicting Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure, Their Subsequent Onset, and Death

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Comparison of trends in ischaemic heart disease between North Karelia, Finland, and Kaunas, Lithuania, from 1971 to 1987.

scientific article published in November 1992

Confidence intervals for weighted sums of poisson parameters

scientific article published on 01 March 1991

Continuous 15-year decrease in incidence and mortality of stroke in Finland: the FINSTROKE study

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Contribution of 30 biomarkers to 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in 2 population cohorts: the MONICA, risk, genetics, archiving, and monograph (MORGAM) biomarker project

scientific article published on 24 May 2010

Contribution of cystatin C- and creatinine-based definitions of chronic kidney disease to cardiovascular risk assessment in 20 population-based and 3 disease cohorts: the BiomarCaRE project

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Contribution of trends in survival and coronary-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA project populations. Monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease.

scientific article published in May 1999

Coronary events and coronary care: MONICA project

scientific article published in The Lancet

Coronary events and coronary care: MONICA project

Correction: Impact of Age and Gender on the Prevalence and Prognostic Importance of the Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components in Europeans. The MORGAM Prospective Cohort Project

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Corrigendum to “Myocardial infarction occurrence in Jerusalem: a Mediterranean anomaly” [Atherosclerosis 178 (1) (2005) 129–138]

scholarly article published in Atherosclerosis

Current smoking and the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction in the WHO MONICA Project populations

Current smoking and the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction in the WHO MONICA Project populations

scientific article published on September 2004

Current smoking and the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction in the WHO MONICA Project populations

scientific article published in December 2004

Decline in cardiovascular mortality in North Karelia and other parts of Finland

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Decline in cardiovascular mortality in North Karelia and other parts of Finland

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Decline in out-of-hospital coronary heart disease deaths has contributed the main part to the overall decline in coronary heart disease mortality rates among persons 35 to 64 years of age in Finland: the FINAMI study

scientific article published on 28 July 2003

Decline of coronary heart disease mortality in Finland during 1983 to 1992: roles of incidence, recurrence, and case-fatality. The FINMONICA MI Register Study

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Decomposing the educational gradient in allostatic load across European populations. What matters the most: differentials in exposure or in susceptibility?

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Defining thirds of schooling years in population studies

scientific article published on 13 June 2007

Determinants of social inequalities in stroke incidence across Europe: a collaborative analysis of 126 635 individuals from 48 cohort studies

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Diagnostic features of acute myocardial infarction - changes over time from 1983 to 1990: results from the FINMONICA AMI register study

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Differences in participation rates and lessons learned about recruitment of participants--the European Health Examination Survey Pilot Project

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Do changes in cardiovascular risk factors explain changes in mortality from stroke in Finland?

scientific article published on April 1995

Do other cardiovascular risk factors influence the impact of age on the association between blood pressure and mortality? The MORGAM Project

scientific article published on May 2014

Do trends in population levels of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors explain trends in stroke event rates? Comparisons of 15 populations in 9 countries within the WHO MONICA Stroke Project. World Health Organization Monitoring of T

scientific article published in October 2002

Educational class inequalities in the incidence of coronary heart disease in Europe

scientific article published on 5 February 2016

Effect of major lifestyle risk factors, independent and jointly, on life expectancy with and without cardiovascular disease: results from the Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES)

scientific article published on 18 January 2016

Effect of sampling frames on response rates in the WHO MONICA risk factor surveys.

scientific article published in January 2005

Estimating expected life-years and risk factor associations with mortality in Finland: cohort study

scientific article published on 08 March 2020

Estimation of an errors-in-variables regression model when the variances of the measurement errors vary between the observations

scientific article published in April 2002

Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations

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Estimation of contribution of changes in coronary care to improving survival, event rates, and coronary heart disease mortality across the WHO MONICA Project populations

scientific article published in The Lancet

European Health Examination Survey--towards a sustainable monitoring system.

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European health examination surveys – a tool for collecting objective information about the health of the population.

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Evaluating whole genome amplification via multiply-primed rolling circle amplification for SNP genotyping of samples with low DNA yield

scientific article published in August 2005

Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in >300,000 individuals

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Factors influencing the outcome of laser trabeculoplasty

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Five-year risk of developing clinical diabetes after first myocardial infarction; the FINAMI study

Gender differences in genetic risk profiles for cardiovascular disease

scientific article published in 2008

Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

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Genetic invalidation of Lp-PLA2 as a therapeutic target: Large-scale study of five functional Lp-PLA2-lowering alleles

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Genetic markers enhance coronary risk prediction in men: the MORGAM prospective cohorts

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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

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Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease in Prospective Cohort Studies: The CHARGE Consortium

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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

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Haplotypic analysis of tag SNPs of the interleukin-18 gene in relation to cardiovascular disease events: the MORGAM Project

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HbA1c levels in non-diabetic older adults - No J-shaped associations with primary cardiovascular events, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality after adjustment for confounders in a meta-analysis of individual participant data from six cohort studie

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High population prevalence of cardiac troponin I measured by a high-sensitivity assay and cardiovascular risk estimation: the MORGAM Biomarker Project Scottish Cohort

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High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Levels and Prediction of Heart Failure: Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Hospital discharge register data in the assessment of trends in acute myocardial infarction. FINMONICA AMI Register Study Team

scientific article published on October 1995

Impact of age and gender on the prevalence and prognostic importance of the metabolic syndrome and its components in Europeans. The MORGAM Prospective Cohort Project

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Impact of age on the importance of systolic and diastolic blood pressures for stroke risk: the MOnica, Risk, Genetics, Archiving, and Monograph (MORGAM) Project

scientific article published on 24 September 2012

Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium

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Individual predictability of repeated spinal anaesthesia with isobaric bupivacaine

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Ischemic stroke is associated with the ABO locus: the EuroCLOT study

scientific article published on January 2013

Lack of association between polymorphisms of the IL18R1 and IL18RAP genes and cardiovascular risk: the MORGAM Project

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Large scale association analysis of novel genetic loci for coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 22 January 2009

Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 02 December 2012

Lipoprotein(a) and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the European population: results from the BiomarCaRE consortium

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Locally Dependent Random Graphs and their use in the Study of Epidemic Models

Long-term prognosis after coronary artery bypass surgery

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Low testosterone levels are predictive for incident atrial fibrillation and ischaemic stroke in men, but protective in women - results from the FINRISK study

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

MORGAM (an international pooling of cardiovascular cohorts).

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Measures of Abdominal Adiposity and the Risk of Stroke

Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Methods of total cholesterol measurement in the baseline survey of the WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published in January 1990

Midregional proadrenomedullin and growth differentiation factor-15 are not influenced by obesity in heart failure patients

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Mild myocardial infarction--a classification problem in epidemiologic studies. WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published in January 1997

Modelling the burden of stroke in Finland until 2030.

scientific article published in October 2009

Multinational Comparison of Diagnostic Procedures and Management of Acute Stroke: The WHO MONICA Study

Multinational comparisons of stroke epidemiology. Evaluation of case ascertainment in the WHO MONICA Stroke Study. World Health Organization Monitoring Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease

scientific article published in March 1995

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.

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Myocardial infarction in diabetic and non-diabetic persons with and without prior myocardial infarction: the FINAMI Study

Myocardial infarction occurrence in Jerusalem: a Mediterranean anomaly

scientific article published in January 2005

NT-proBNP (N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide) and the Risk of Stroke

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

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On spàtial general epidemics and bond percolation processes

On the reproduction rate of the spatial general epidemic

PROTEIN-CODING VARIANTS IMPLICATE NOVEL GENES RELATED TO LIPID HOMEOSTASIS CONTRIBUTING TO BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION

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Pattern of declining blood pressure across replicate population surveys of the WHO MONICA project, mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and the role of medication.

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Population versus clinical view of case fatality from acute coronary heart disease: results from the WHO MONICA Project 1985-1990. Multinational MONItoring of Trends and Determinants in CArdiovascular Disease

scientific article published in December 1997

Predictive value of long-term changes of growth differentiation factor-15 over a 27-year-period for heart failure and death due to coronary heart disease.

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Predictive value of low testosterone concentrations regarding coronary heart disease and mortality in men and women - evidence from the FINRISK97 study

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Prime mover or fellow traveller: 25-hydroxy vitamin D's seasonal variation, cardiovascular disease and death in the Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort (SHHEC)

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Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution

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Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

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Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Quality assessment of blood pressure measurements in epidemiological surveys. The impact of last digit preference and the proportions of identical duplicate measurements. WHO Monica Project [corrected]

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Quality control and conduct of genome-wide association meta-analyses

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Quantification of the smoking-associated cancer risk with rate advancement periods: meta-analysis of individual participant data from cohorts of the CHANCES consortium

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Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease

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Refining The Accuracy Of Validated Target Identification Through Coding Variant Fine-Mapping In Type 2 Diabetes

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Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events; the FINMONICA MI Register Study

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Relations of changes in coronary disease rates and changes in risk factor levels: methodological issues and a practical example

scientific article published in May 1996

Relationship of Socioeconomic Status to the Incidence and Prehospital, 28-Day, and 1-Year Mortality Rates of Acute Coronary Events in the FINMONICA Myocardial Infarction Register Study

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

Relative risks for stroke by age, sex, and population based on follow-up of 18 European populations in the MORGAM Project

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

Risk alleles of USF1 gene predict cardiovascular disease of women in two prospective studies

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Selection bias was reduced by recontacting nonparticipants.

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Sex Differences and Similarities in Atrial Fibrillation Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Mortality in Community Cohorts: Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium (Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe).

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Sex-Specific Epidemiology of Heart Failure Risk and Mortality in Europe: Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits

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Smoking and All-cause Mortality in Older Adults: Results From the CHANCES Consortium

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Smoking and relative body weight: an international perspective from the WHO MONICA Project.

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Socioeconomic status and ischemic stroke: The FINMONICA Stroke Register

scientific article published in July 2001

Standardisation of laboratories engaged in lipid analyses of population health examination surveys

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Standardization of total cholesterol measurement in population surveys--pre-analytic sources of variation and their effect on the prevalence of hypercholesterolaemia.

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Stroke Incidence, Case Fatality, and Mortality in the WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Stroke incidence and case fatality in Finland and in Akita, Japan: a comparative study

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Stroke incidence and mortality correlated to stroke risk factors in the WHO MONICA Project. An ecological study of 18 populations

scientific article published in July 1997

Stroke risk estimation across nine European countries in the MORGAM project.

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Stroke trends in the WHO MONICA project

scientific article published on March 1997

Survival trends, coronary event rates, and the MONICA project

scientific article published in The Lancet

Temporal relations between atrial fibrillation and ischaemic stroke and their prognostic impact on mortality

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Ten-year trends in stroke incidence and mortality in the FINMONICA Stroke Study

scientific article published in May 1996

Testosterone Levels and Type 2 Diabetes-No Correlation with Age, Differential Predictive Value in Men and Women

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

The Consortium on Health and Ageing: Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES) project--design, population and data harmonization of a large-scale, international study

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The contribution of educational class in improving accuracy of cardiovascular risk prediction across European regions: The MORGAM Project Cohort Component

scientific article published in May 2014

The effect of correcting for troponins on trends in coronary heart disease events in Finland during 1993-2002: the FINAMI study

scholarly article by V. Salomaa et al published 4 September 2006 in European Heart Journal

The effect of temperature on systolic blood pressure

The effects of saturated fat and n-6 polyunsaturated fat on postprandial lipemia and hemostatic activity

scientific article published in October 1993

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

The impact of newly identified loci on coronary heart disease, stroke and total mortality in the MORGAM prospective cohorts

scientific article published on April 2009

The product representation of a locally dependent random graph

The relation of body mass index and abdominal adiposity with dyslipidemia in 27 general populations of the WHO MONICA Project

article by V. Wietlisbach et al published May 2013 in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases

The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The spatial general epidemic and locally dependent random graphs

The validity of hospital discharge register data on coronary heart disease in Finland

scientific article published on June 1997

The validity of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and Causes of Death Register data on coronary heart disease

scientific article published in April 2005

Thirty-one novel biomarkers as predictors for clinically incident diabetes

scientific article (publication date: 9 April 2010)

Total and cause specific mortality among participants and non-participants of population based health surveys: a comprehensive follow up of 54 372 Finnish men and women

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Trans-ancestry meta-analyses identify rare and common variants associated with blood pressure and hypertension

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Transcriptome-Wide Analysis Identifies Novel Associations With Blood Pressure

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants

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Trends in cigarette smoking in 36 populations from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s: findings from the WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Trends in coronary events in Finland during 1983-1997. The FINAMI study

scientific article published in February 2003

Trends in coronary risk factors in the WHO MONICA project.

scientific article published in October 2001

Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Trends in the incidence of and mortality from coronary heart disease in Finland, 1983-1988 ⬇️

scholarly article by V Salomaa et al published 1 December 1992 in American Journal of Epidemiology

Trends in the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension: the WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published in February 2006

Troponin I and cardiovascular risk prediction in the general population: the BiomarCaRE consortium

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Under-estimation of obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol by self-reported data: comparison of self-reported information and objective measures from health examination surveys

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Use of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy in the WHO MONICA project

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Variation in the selenoprotein S gene locus is associated with coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke in two independent Finnish cohorts

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Varying Sensitivity of Waist Action Levels to Identify Subjects with Overweight or Obesity in 19 Populations of The WHO MONICA Project

article by Anu Molarius et al published December 1999 in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

WHO MONICA Project and its Connections to the North Karelia Project.

scientific article published on June 2016

WHO MONICA Project: geographic variation in mortality from cardiovascular diseases. Baseline data on selected population characteristics and cardiovascular mortality

scientific article

Waist and hip circumferences and waist-hip ratio in 19 populations of the WHO MONICA Project

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

World Health Organization definition of myocardial infarction: 2008-09 revision

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Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

scholarly article

[Usual risk factors and treatment explain the international differences in the coronary artery disease epidemic]

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

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