Tobacco and other factors in the etiology of ischemic heart disease in man Results of a retrospective survey

The risk of diabetic control: A comparison of hospital versus general practice supervision

“…At Hotel-Dieu the insulin-treated patients who failed to partici-0012-186X/82/0022/0309/$01.20 [7] calculated by the formula 100 (log weight (kg) _ 1) height 2 (m) [7]. However, the duration of diabetes was longer among those who failed to participate than in those who attended (17 + 10 versus 13 + 7 years, p < 0.05).…”

Mortality in Relation to Smoking: Ten Years' Observations of British Doctors

“…So far as they go they suggest that the mortality is higher among inhalers than among non-inhalers, but the difference is small and it is not statistically significant (Table 31). Schwartz, Anguera, and Lenegre (1961), on the other hand, carried out a retrospective study on nearly 1,000 patients with coronary atherosclerosis and found a highly significant excess of inhalers over a matched control series. Their data suggested that there was practically no difference in risk between non-inhalers and non-smokers and that the risk for heavy cigarette smokers could be almost entirely attributed to the fact that heavy smokers also tended to inhale.…”

“…Four retrospective studies have shown an increased mortality for this site among cigarette smokers-of the order of two to three times the rate in non-smokers-and a still higher rate of mortality in heavy cigarette smokers (Lilienfeld, Levin, and Moore, 1956;Schwartz et al, 1961;Lockwood, 1961;Wynder, Onderdonk, and Mantel, 1963). Moreover, similar results have been obtained in all the other six prospective studies (Surgeon General's Advisory Committee).…”

Determinants of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly

“…Obesity appears to reduce coronary mortality in the hypertensive. In several studies the risk for obese subjects with hypertension has been shown to be less than that for nonobese hypertensive subjects (95)(96)(97)(98)(99) ation of the risk due to high blood pressure in the obese. Again, "cuff hypertension" of the obese could simulate a lower risk in the obese "hypertensive".…”