The Increasing Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease in Men, 1950 to 1962

Reader, Ralph; Wynn, Allan

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1966.tb97485.x

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“…The next paradigm shift occurred in the 1960s, soon after the National Heart Foundation had been established in response to the rapidly increasing death rate from coronary heart disease, and the consequent loss of valuable manpower from the workforce. Between 1950 and 1962, the mortality rate from coronary heart disease among men aged 35–39 years rose by a staggering 78%, and by 35% in men aged 40–59 years, compared with a rise of only 12% in the total population (among women, the change was negligible) 15 . In 1960, coronary heart disease alone accounted for one in every three deaths in Australia (today, the proportion is closer to one in four) 16 .…”

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“…Between 1950 and 1962, the mortality rate from coronary heart disease among men aged 35-39 years rose by a staggering 78%, and by 35% in men aged 40-59 years, compared with a rise of only 12% in the total population (among women, the change was negligible). 15 In 1960, coronary heart disease alone accounted for one in every three deaths in Australia (today, the proportion is closer to one in four). 16 The nutritional theory of the time was inadequate to explain this situation.…”

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Paradigm shifts in the history of dietary advice in Australia

Santich

2005

Nutrition & Dietetics

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(Nutr Diet 2005;62:152–157) Dietary advice in Australia, understood as recommendations as to a ‘better’ way of eating directed to the general population, has changed significantly as a result of advances in nutritional science and, in accordance with the structure of scientific revolutions outlined by Thomas Kuhn, by a series of ‘paradigm shifts’. These occur when the existing theory or paradigm becomes inadequate to explain observations or research findings and is discarded in favour of a new paradigm. In the history of dietary advice in Australia, paradigm shifts are associated with the discovery of vitamins at the beginning of the twentieth century and recognition of the role of fat in heart disease in the second half of the twentieth century. In both instances, a consequence of the paradigm shift was dramatic changes in dietary advice. While research has played, and continues to play, a significant role in the shaping of dietary advice, the direction of nutrition research is increasingly influenced by commercial considerations, which has implications for future dietary advice.

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Paradigm shifts in the history of dietary advice in Australia

Santich

2005

Nutrition & Dietetics

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“…Coronary heart disease is one of the most serious problems in Australian medicine; current death rates from it closely resemble the American mortality figures and consistently exceed those of England and Wales (W.H.O., 1967;Reader and Wynn, 1966). It has been the subject of so much research and publicity in the Western world that theories about its cause and prevention are common knowledge.…”

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CHOLESTEROL AND THE CHILD: STUDIES OF THE CHOLESTEROL LEVELS OF BUSSELTON SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS¹

Godfrey

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Cullen

et al. 1972

J Paediatrics Child Health

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SYNOPSIS In 1964 as part of a population study, the blood cholesterols of 1,292 school children in the town of Busselton in Western Australia were examined. A gradual rise in the median value throughout school life was demonstrated in both boys and girls, with a pre‐adolescent rise comparable with similar studies elsewhere. In 1969 the cholesterol levels of the children with the highest, middle and lowest 5% levels in 1967 were repeated and showed a highly significant correlation, thus indicating that a single cholesterol estimation in childhood is of considerable predictive value, at least over a 2 year period. Comparison of cholesterol levels of 929 children with those of their parents revealed a significant correlation between parents and children throughout the whole cholesterol range. It has not been possible to demonstrate whether the cause is dietary or genetic, except in a few cases of genetic hyperlipidaemia, but it is likely that, at least in those children with a cholesterol higher than 250 mgm% of the cause is genetic. The mother's cholesterol is more closely related than the father's to that of the children. This might be due to both a genetic contribution to the children and her role in controlling the diet of the family, this control being greatest on the young children.

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“…The economic loss to the nation in unearned income alone is at least 350 million dollars a year. While growing awareness and better diagnosis may account for some of the increase, these do not account for the continuing rise in post war years when diagnostic standards have been well established and doctors have been acutely aware of the problem (Reader & Wynn, 1966). Precisely when this disease assumed epidemic proportions will never be known.…”

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Too much to eat: coronary disease, 1769-1969

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1970

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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The Increasing Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease in Men, 1950 to 1962

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Paradigm shifts in the history of dietary advice in Australia

Paradigm shifts in the history of dietary advice in Australia

CHOLESTEROL AND THE CHILD: STUDIES OF THE CHOLESTEROL LEVELS OF BUSSELTON SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS¹

Too much to eat: coronary disease, 1769-1969

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CHOLESTEROL AND THE CHILD: STUDIES OF THE CHOLESTEROL LEVELS OF BUSSELTON SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS1

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