International Cooperative Epidemiology

The International Cooperative Study on the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease has yielded key data on the role of diet (13). This prospective international study of 18 population samples in seven countries - Finland, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, United States, and Yugoslavia - deals with observations on approximately 12,000 men, originally age 40 to 59, who have been studied for about a decade. Marked differences in the prevalence and incidence of coronary heart disease were recorded among the population samples from seven countries. 

Fig. 2. International Cooperative Study on Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease average percentage of dietary calories provided by saturated, mono-ene, and polysaturated fatty acids (13).

Fig. 3. International Cooperative Study on Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease men originally age 40-59 in seven countries relationship between percentage of total calories provided by saturated fatty acids in the diet of the cohorts and age-standardized 5-year incidence rate for fatal coronary heart disease plus non-fatal myocardial infarction. The cohorts are ...

Data from the International Cooperative Study on the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease indicate that interpopulation differences in 5 years incidence rates for coronary heart disease are attributable in part to differences in prevalence of hypertension among the 18 samples of middle-aged men (13). 

Cooper JD, Bird SM (2003) Predicting incidence of variant Crentzfeldt-Jakob disease from UK dietary exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy for the 1940 to 1969 and post-1969 birth cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology 32 784-791. 

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