Coronary Heart Disease in a Population in the South of Sweden

Serum Lipids in Male Patients Hospitalized for Myocardial Infarction

“…Compared also with the Varmland health survey ( 1 7 ) , in which only 2-3 % had elevated cholesterol levels, the mean level in the present study was high. Comparisons with normal materials thus show that the infarction patients generally have higher serum lipids than is usual, which agrees well with the results of earlier studies (1,2,6,8,12).…”

“…Several authors have shown that patients with coronary heart disease usually have elevated serum lipid levels (1,2,6,8,12). The study from Framingham by Drawber et al (12) showed that the combination of hypercholesterolaemia, hypertony and adiposity in middle-aged men involves an especially high risk.…”

The Kockum Study: Twenty‐two‐year Follow‐up

“…The frst investigation in 1954 was part of a comparison of the incidence of CHD in Naples, Italy, and Malmo, Sweden (1). A report on the entire material including a 6-year follow-up was published in 1%6 (2). A 17-year follow-up based on a reexamination of the population in 1971 was published in part in 1973 (3).…”