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M Marmot

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International studies of salt and blood pressure.

Comparing the distributions of blood pressure in different populations it has been found that the log-normal distribution gave the best summary of the data. The geometric mean and the coefficient of variation of the underlying blood pressure distribution were the most informative statistics. Using this blood pressure distribution, a model is discussed for the change in blood pressure with age and between populations. These changes are consistent with an environmental factor, such as salt intake, affecting the position of the mean of the blood pressure distribution and with a gradient of susceptibility within a population.

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Epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease and stroke in Japanese men living in Japan, Hawaii and California. Incidence of myocardial infarction and death from coronary heart disease.

The incidence of myocardial infarction and death from coronary heart disease was studied in defined samples of 45 to 68 year old Japanese men in Japan, Hawaii and California. The incidence rate was lowest in Japan where it was half that observed in Hawaii (P less than 0.01). The youngest men in the sample in Japan were at particularly low risk. The incidence among Japanese men in California was nearly 50 percent greater than that of Japanese in Hawaii (P less than 0.05). A striking increase in the incidence of myocardial infarction appears to have occurred in the Japanese who migrated to the United States; this increase is more pronounced in California than in Hawaii.

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