• Alcohol consumption and common carotid intima-media thickness: The USE-IMT study 

      Britton, Annie R.; Grobbee, Diederick E.; den Ruijter, Hester M.; Anderson, Todd J.; Desvarieux, Moise; Engström, Gunnar; Evans, Greg W.; Hedblad, Bo; Kauhanen, Jussi; Kurl, Sudhir; Lonn, Eva M.; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Polak, Joseph F.; Price, Jacqueline F.; Rembold, Christopher M.; Rosvall, Maria; Rundek, Tatjana; Salonen, Jukka T.; Stehouwer, Coen; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Bots, Michiel L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-19)
    • Alcohol intake in relation to non-fatal and fatal coronary heart disease and stroke: EPIC-CVD case-cohort study 

      Ricci, Cristian; Wood, Angela; Muller, David; Gunter, Marc J.; Agudo, Antonio; Boeing, Heiner; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Warnakula, Samantha; Saieva, Calogero; Spijkerman, Annemieke M.W.; Sluijs, Ivonne; Tjønneland, Anne; Kyrø, Cecilie; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Kühn, Tilman; Kaaks, Rudolf; Sánchez, Maria-Jose; Panico, Salavatore; Agnoli, Claudia; Palli, Domenico; Tumino, Rosario; Engström, Gunnar; Melander, Olle; Bonnet, Fabrice; Boer, Jolanda M.A.; Key, Timothy J.; Travis, Ruth C.; Overvad, Kim; Verschuren, W.M. Monique; Quirós, José Ramón; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Papatesta, Eleni-Maria; Peppa, Eleni; Iribas, Conchi Moreno; Gavrila, Diana; Forslund, Ann-Sofie; Jansson, Jan-Håkan; Matullo, Giuseppe; Arriola, Larraitz; Freisling, Heinz; Lassale, Camille; Tzoulaki, Ioanna; Sharp, Stephen J.; Forouhi, Nita G.; Langenberg, Claudia; Saracci, Rodolfo; Sweeting, Michael; Brennan, Paul; Butterworth, Adam S.; Riboli, Elio; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Danesh, John; Ferrari, Pietro (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-29)
      Objective To investigate the association between alcohol consumption (at baseline and over lifetime) and non-fatal and fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke.<p> <p>Design Multicentre case-cohort study.<p> <p>Setting A study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) determinants within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition cohort (EPIC-CVD) from eight European ...
    • Association of menopausal characteristics and risk of coronary heart disease: A pan-European case-cohort analysis 

      Dam, Veerle; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Onland-Moret, N. Charlotte; Groenwold, Rolf H.H.; Peters, Sanne A.E.; Burgess, Stephen; Wood, Angela M.; Chirlaque, Maria-Dolores; Moons, Karel G.M.; Oliver-Williams, Clare; Schuit, Ewoud; Tikk, Kaja; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Holm, Marianne; Tjønneland, Anne; Kühn, Tilman; Fortner, Renée T.; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Karakatsani, Anna; La Vecchia, Carlo; Ferrari, Pietro; Gunter, Marc; Masala, Giovanna; Sieri, Sabina; Tumino, Rosario; Panico, Salvatore; Boer, Jolanda M.A.; Verschuren, W.M. Monique; Salamanca-Fernández, Elena; Arriola, Larraitz; Moreno-Iribas, Conchi; Engström, Gunnar; Melander, Olle; Nordendahl, Maria; Wennberg, Patrik; Key, Timothy J.; Colorado-Yohar, Sandra; Matullo, Giuseppe; Overvad, Kim; Clavel-Chapelon, Francoise; Boeing, Heiner; Ramõn Quirõs, Jose; di Angelantonio, Emanuele; Langenberg, Claudia; Sweeting, Michael J.; Riboli, Elio; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Danesh, John; Butterworth, Adam (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-22)
      <i>Background</i> - Earlier age at menopause has been associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), but the shape of association and role of established cardiovascular risk factors remain unclear. Therefore, we examined the associations between menopausal characteristics and CHD risk; the shape of the association between age at menopause and CHD risk; and the extent to which these ...
    • Clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and carotid intima-media thickness: The USE-IMT study 

      Wang, Xin; Dalmeijer, Geertje W.; den Ruijter, Hester M.; Anderson, Todd J.; Britton, Annie R.; Dekker, Jacqueline; Engström, Gunnar; Evans, Greg W.; De Graaf, Jacqueline; Grobbee, Diederick E.; Hedblad, Bo; Holewijn, Suzanne; Ikeda, Ai; Kauhanen, Jussi; Kitagawa, Kazuo; Kitamura, Akihiko; Kurl, Sudhir; Lonn, Eva M.; Lorenz, Matthias W.; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Nijpels, Giel; Okazaki, Shuhei; Polak, Joseph F.; Price, Jacqueline F.; Rembold, Christopher M.; Rosvall, Maria; Rundek, Tatjana; Salonen, Jukka T.; Sitzer, Matthias; Stehouwer, Coen D.A.; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Peters, Sanne A.E.; Bots, Michiel L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-21)
      Background:<br>The relation of a single risk factor with atherosclerosis is established. Clinically we know of risk factor clustering within individuals. Yet, studies into the magnitude of the relation of risk factor clusters with atherosclerosis are limited. Here, we assessed that relation.<br>Methods:<br>Individual participant data from 14 cohorts, involving 59,025 individuals were used in this ...
    • Dietary amino acids and risk of stroke subtypes: a prospective analysis of 356,000 participants in seven European countries 

      Tong, Tammy Y. N.; Clarke, Robert Michael; Schmidt, Julie A.; Huybrechts, Inge; Noor, Urwah; Forouhi, Nita G.; Imamura, Fumiaki; Travis, Ruth C.; Weiderpass Vainio, Elisabete; Aleksandrova, Krasimira; Dahm, Christina C.; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Overvad, Kim; Kyrø, Cecilie; Tjønneland, Anne; Kaaks, Rudolf; Katzke, Verena; Schiborn, Catarina; Schulze, Matthias B.; Mayen-Chacon, Ana-Lucia; Masala, Giovanna; Sieri, Sabina; de Magistris, Maria Santucci; Tumino, Rosario; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Boer, Jolanda M. A.; Verschuren, W. M. Monique; Brustad, Magritt; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Crous-Bou, Marta; Petrova, Dafina; Amiano, Pilar; Huerta, José María; Moreno-Iribas, Conchi; Engström, Gunnar; Melander, Olle; Johansson, Kristina; Lindvall, Kristina; Aglago, Elom K.; Heath, Alicia K.; Butterworth, Adam S.; Danesh, John; Key, Timothy J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-07)
      Purpose - Previously reported associations of protein-rich foods with stroke subtypes have prompted interest in the assessment of individual amino acids. We examined the associations of dietary amino acids with risks of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke in the EPIC study.<p> <p>Methods - We analysed data from 356,142 participants from seven European countries. Dietary intakes of 19 individual ...
    • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. 

      Magnussen, Christina; Ojeda, Francisco M.; Leong, Darryl P.; Alegre-Diaz, Jesus; Amouyel, Philippe; Aviles-Santa, Larissa; De Bacquer, Dirk; Ballantyne, Christie M.; Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio; Bobak, Martin; Brenner, Hermann; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; De Lemos, James; Dobson, Annette; Dörr, Marcus; Donfrancesco, Chiara; Drygas, Wojciech; Dullaart, Robin P.; Engström, Gunnar; Ferrario, Marco M.; Ferrières, Jean; De Gaetano, Giovanni; Goldbourt, Uri; Gonzalez, Clicerio; Grassi, Guido; Hodge, Allison M.; Hveem, Kristian; Iacoviello, Licia; Ikram, M. Kamran; Irazola, Vilma; Jobe, Modou; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kaleebu, Pontiano; Kavousi, Maryam; Kee, Frank; Khalili, Davood; Koenig, Wolfgang; Kontsevaya, Anna; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Lackner, Karl J.; Leistner, David M.; Lind, Lars; Linneberg, Allan; Lorenz, Thiess; Lyngbakken, Magnus Nakrem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Malyutina, Sofia; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Melander, Olle; Metspalu, Andres; Miranda, J. Jaime; Moitry, Marie; Mugisha, Joseph; Nalini, Mahdi; Nambi, Vijay; Ninomiya, Toshiharu; Oppermann, Karen; D'Orsi, Eleonora; Pająk, Andrzej; Palmieri, Luigi; Panagiotakos, Demosthenes; Perianayagam, Arokiasamy; Peters, Annette; Poustchi, Hossein; Prentice, Andrew M.; Prescott, Eva; Risérus, Ulf; Salomaa, Veikko; Sans, Susana; Sakata, Satoko; Schöttker, Ben; Schutte, Aletta E.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Sharma, Sanjib Kumar; Shaw, Jonathan E.; Simons, Leon A.; Söderberg, Stefan; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Thorand, Barbara; Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh; Twerenbold, Raphael; Vanuzzo, Diego; Veronesi, Giovanni; Waibel, Julia; Wannamethee, S. Goya; Watanabe, Masafumi; Wild, Philipp S.; Yao, Yao; Zeng, Yi; Ziegler, Andreas; Blankenberg, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      BACKGROUND - Five modifiable risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease and death from any cause. Studies using individual-level data to evaluate the regional and sex-specific prevalence of the risk factors and their effect on these outcomes are lacking.<p> <p>METHODS - We pooled and harmonized individual-level data from 112 cohort studies conducted in 34 countries and 8 geographic ...
    • Modifiable causes of premature death in middle-age in Western Europe: Results from the EPIC cohort study 

      Muller, David C.; Murphy, Neil; Johansson, Mattias; Ferrari, Pietro; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Clavel, Francoise; Dartois, Laureen; Li, Kuanrong; Kaaks, Rudolf; Weikert, Cornelia; Bergmann, Manuela; Boeing, Heiner; Tjønneland, Anne; Overvad, Kim; Redondo, María-Luisa; Agudo, Antonio; Molina-Portillo, Elena; Altzibar, Jone M.; Cirera, Lluis; Ardanaz, Eva; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Key, Timothy J.; Travis, Ruth C.; Bamia, Christina; Orfanos, Philippos; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Palli, Domenico; Pala, Valeria; Tumino, Rosario; Vineis, Paolo; Panico, Salvatore; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas; Verschuren, W.M. Monique; Struijk, Ellen A.; Peeters, Petra H.; Engström, Gunnar; Melander, Olle; Sund, Malin; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Skeie, Guri; Lund, Eiliv; Norat, Teresa; Gunter, Marc; Riboli, Elio; Brennan, Paul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-06-14)
      Background<br> Life expectancy is increasing in Europe, yet a substantial proportion of adults still die prematurely before the age of 70 years. We sought to estimate the joint and relative contributions of tobacco smoking, hypertension, obesity, physical inactivity, alcohol and poor diet towards risk of premature death.<br> Methods<br> We analysed data from 264,906 European adults from the ...
    • Predictive value for cardiovascular events of common carotid intima media thickness and its rate of change in individuals at high cardiovascular risk - Results from the PROG-IMT collaboration 

      Lorenz, Matthias W.; Gao, Lu; Ziegelbauer, Kathrin; Norata, Giuseppe Danilo; Empana, Jean Philippe; Schmidtmann, Irene; Lin, Hung-Ju; McLachlan, Stela; Bokemark, Lena; Ronkainen, Kimmo; Amato, Mauro; Schminke, Ulf; Srinivasan, Sathanur R.; Lind, Lars; Okazaki, Shuhei; Stehouwer, Coen D.A.; Willeit, Peter; Polak, Joseph F.; Steinmetz, Helmuth; Sander, Dirk; Poppert, Holger; Desvarieux, Moise; Ikram, M. Arfan; Johnsen, Stein Harald; Staub, Daniel; Sirtori, Cesare R.; Iglseder, Bernhard; Beloqui, Oscar; Engström, Gunnar; Friera, Alfonso; Rozza, Francesco; Xie, Wuxiang; Parraga, Grace; Grigore, Liliana; Plichart, Matthieu; Blankenberg, Stefan; Su, Ta-Chen; Schmidt, Caroline; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Veglia, Fabrizio; Völzke, Henry; Nijpels, Giel; Willeit, Johann; Sacco, Ralph L.; Franco, Oscar H.; Uthoff, Heiko; Hedblad, Bo; Suarez, Carmen; Izzo, Raffaele; Zhao, Dong; Wannarong, Thapat; Catapano, Alberico; Ducimetiere, Pierre; Espinola-Klein, Christine; Chien, Kuo-Liong; Price, Jackie F.; Bergström, Göran; Kauhanen, Jussi; Tremoli, Elena; Dörr, Marcus; Berenson, Gerald; Kitagawa, Kazuo; Dekker, Jacqueline M.; Kiechl, Stefan; Sitzer, Matthias; Bickel, Horst; Rundek, Tatjana; Hofman, Albert; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Castelnuovo, Samuela; Landecho, Manuel F.; Rosvall, Maria; Gabriel, Rafael; de Luca, Nicola; Liu, Jing; Baldassarre, Damiano; Kavousi, Maryam; de Groot, Eric; Bots, Michiel L.; Yanez, David N.; Thompson, Simon G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2018-04-12)
      <b>Aims</b><br> Carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) predicts cardiovascular (CVD) events, but the predictive value of CIMT change is debated. We assessed the relation between CIMT change and events in individuals at high cardiovascular risk.<br> <b>Methods and results</b><br> From 31 cohorts with two CIMT scans (total n = 89070) on average 3.6 years apart and clinical follow-up, subcohorts ...
    • Race/ethnic differences in the associations of the Framingham risk factors with carotid IMT and cardiovascular events 

      Gijsberts, Crystel M.; Groenewegen, Karlijn A.; Hoefer, Imo E.; Eijkemans, Marinus J.C.; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Anderson, Todd J.; Britton, Annie R.; Dekker, Jacqueline M.; Engström, Gunnar; Evans, Greg W.; de Graaf, Jacqueline; Grobbee, Diederick E.; Hedblad, Bo; Holewijn, Suzanne; Ikeda, Ai; Kitagawa, Kazuo; Kitamura, Akihiko; De Kleijn, Dominique P.V.; Lonn, Eva M.; Lorenz, Matthias W.; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Nijpels, Giel; Okazaki, Shuhei; O'Leary, Daniel H.; Pasterkamp, Gerard; Peters, Sanne A.E.; Polak, Joseph F.; Price, Jacqueline F.; Rembold, Christopher M.; Rosvall, Maria; Rundek, Tatjana; Salonen, Jukka T.; Sitzer, Matthias; Stehouwer, Coen D.A.; Bots, Michiel L.; Den Ruijter, Hester M. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-02)
      Background Clinical manifestations and outcomes of atherosclerotic disease differ between ethnic groups. In addition, the prevalence of risk factors is substantially different. Primary prevention programs are based on data derived from almost exclusively White people. We investigated how race/ethnic differences modify the associations of established risk factors with atherosclerosis and ...
    • Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Classical Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Common Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis 

      Nonterah, Engelbert A.; Crowther, Nigel J.; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin; Oduro, Abraham R.; Kavousi, Maryam; Agongo, Godfred; Anderson, Todd J.; Asiki, Gershim; Boua, Palwendé R.; Choma, Solomon S. R.; Couper, David J.; Engström, Gunnar; de Graaf, Jacqueline; Kauhanen, Jussi; Lonn, Eva M.; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Micklesfield, Lisa K.; Okazaki, Shuhei; Polak, Joseph F.; Rundek, Tatjana; Salonen, Jukka T.; Tollman, Stephen M.; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Grobbee, Diederick E.; Ramsay, Michéle; Bots, Michiel L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-25)
      BACKGROUND: The major risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease differ by race or ethnicity but have largely been defined using populations of European ancestry. Despite the rising prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Africa there are few related data from African populations. Therefore, we compared the association of established cardiovascular risk factors with carotid-intima ...