• Application of non-HDL cholesterol for population-based cardiovascular risk stratification: results from the Multinational Cardiovascular Risk Consortium 

      Brunner, Fabian J.; Waldeyer, Christoph; Ojeda, Francisco; Salomaa, Veikko; Kee, Frank; Sans, Susana; Thorand, Barbara; Giampaoli, Simona; Brambilla, Paolo; Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh; Moitry, Marie; Iacoviello, Licia; Veronesi, Giovanni; Grassi, Guido; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Söderberg, Stefan; Linneberg, Allan; Brenner, Hermann; Amouyel, Philippe; Ferrières, Jean; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Nikitin, Yuriy P.; Drygas, Wojciech; Melander, Olle; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Leistner, David M.; Shaw, Jonathan E.; Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B.; Simons, Leon A.; Kavousi, Maryam; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Dullaart, Robin P.F.; Wannamethee, S. Goya; Risérus, Ulf; Shea, Steven; de Lemos, James A.; Omland, Torbjørn; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Landmesser, Ulf; Blankenberg, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-03)
      <i>Background</i> - The relevance of blood lipid concentrations to long-term incidence of cardiovascular disease and the relevance of lipid-lowering therapy for cardiovascular disease outcomes is unclear. We investigated the cardiovascular disease risk associated with the full spectrum of bloodstream non-HDL cholesterol concentrations. We also created an easy-to-use tool to estimate the long-term ...
    • Combined Influence of Waist and Hip Circumference on Risk of Death in a Large Cohort of European and Australian Adults 

      Cameron, Adrian J.; Romaniuk, Helena; Orellana, Liliana; Dallongeville, Jean; Dobson, Annette J; Drygas, Wojciech; Ferrario, Marco; Ferrieres, Jean; Giampaoli, Simona; Gianfagna, Francesco; Iacoviello, Licia; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kee, Frank; Moitry, Marie; Niiranen, Teemu J; Pajak, Andrzej; Palmieri, Luigi; Palosaari, Tarja; Mannisto, Satu; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Thorand, Barbara; Toft, Ulla; Vanuzzo, Diego; Salomaa, Veikko; Veronesi, Giovanni; Wilsgaard, Tom; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Söderberg, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-30)
      Background - Waist circumference and hip circumference are both strongly associated with risk of death; however, their joint association has rarely been investigated.<p> <p>Methods and Results - The MONICA Risk, Genetics, Archiving, and Monograph (MORGAM) Project was conducted in 30 cohorts from 11 countries; 90 487 men and women, aged 30 to 74 years, predominantly white, with no history of ...
    • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol 

      Taddei, Cristina; Zhou, Bin; Bixby, Honor; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Danaei, Goodarz; Jackson, Rod T.; Ahmed, Soheir H; Andersen, Lars Bo; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Ariansen, Inger Kristine Holtermann; Bjertness, Espen; Bjertness, Marius Bergsmark; Graff-Iversen, Sidsel; Haugsgjerd, Teresa Risan; Janszky, Imre; Krokstad, Steinar; Laugsand, Lars Erik; Madar, Ahmed Ali; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Meyer, Haakon E; Sen, Abhijit; Tell, Grete S.; Vatten, Lars Johan; Wilsgaard, Tom; Farzadfar, Farshad; Sophiea, Marisa K.; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Iurilli, Maria L. C.; Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez; Asghari, Golaleh; Dhana, Klodian; Gulayin, Pablo; Kakarmath, Sujay; Santero, Marilina; Voortman, Trudy; Riley, Leanne M.; Cowan, Melanie J.; Savin, Stefan; Bennett, James E.; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Paciorek, Christopher J.; Aekplakorn, Wichai; Cifkova, Renata; Giampaoli, Simona; Kengne, Andre Pascal; Khang, Young-Ho; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Laxmaiah, Avula; Margozzini, Paula; Mathur, Prashant (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-03)
      High blood cholesterol is typically considered a feature of wealthy western countries1,2. However, dietary and behavioural determinants of blood cholesterol are changing rapidly throughout the world3 and countries are using lipid-lowering medications at varying rates. These changes can have distinct effects on the levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and non-HDL cholesterol, which ...
    • Simple cardiovascular risk stratification by replacing total serum cholesterol with anthropometric measures: The MORGAM prospective cohort project 

      Rosberg, Victoria; Vishram-Nielsen, Julie KK; Kristensen, Anna M. Dyrvig; Pareek, Manan; Sehested, Thomas S.G.; Nilsson, Peter M; Linneberg, Allan; Palmieri, Luigi; Giampaoli, Simona; Donfrancesco, Chiara; Kee, Frank; Mancia, Giuseppe; Cesana, Giancarlo; Veronesi, Giovanni; Grassi, Guido; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Salomaa, Veikko; Palosaari, Tarja; Sans, Susana; Ferrieres, Jean; Dallongeville, Jean; Söderberg, Stefan; Moitry, Marie; Drygas, Wojciech; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Peters, Annette; Brenner, Hermann; Schöttker, Ben; Grimsgaard, Sameline; Biering-Sørensen, Tor; Olsen, Michael H (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-27)
      To assess whether anthropometric measures (body mass index [BMI], waist-hip ratio [WHR], and estimated fat mass [EFM]) are independently associated with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), and to assess their added prognostic value compared with serum total-cholesterol. The study population comprised 109,509 individuals (53% men) from the MORGAM-Project, aged 19–97 years, without established ...
    • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: A pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants 

      Zhou, Bin; Lu, Yuan; Hajifathalian, Kaveh; Bentham, James; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Danaei, Goodarz; Bixby, Honor; Cowan, Melanie J; Ali, Mohammed K; Taddei, Cristina; Lo, Wei-Cheng; Reis-Santos, Barbara; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Riley, Leanne M.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Bjerregaard, Peter; Rivera, Juan A.; Fouad, Heba M.; Ma, Guansheng; Mbanya, Jean Claude N.; McGarvey, Stephen T.; Mohan, Viswanathan; Onat, Altan; Pilav, Aida; Ramachandran, Ambady; Ben Romdhane, Habiba; Paciorek, Christopher J.; Bennett, James E.; Ezzati, Majid; Abdeen, Ziad A.; Kadir, Khalid Abdul; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.; Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin; Adams, Robert; Aekplakorn, Wichai; Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.; Agyemang, Charles; Ahmadvand, Alireza; Al-Othman, Amani Rashed; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Amouyel, Philippe; Amuzu, Antoinette; Bo Andersen, Lars; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Anjana, Ranjit Mohan; Aounallah-Skhiri, Hajer; Aris, Tahir; Arlappa, Nimmathota; Arveiler, Dominique; Assah, Felix K.; Avdicova, Maria; Azizi, Fereidoun; Balakrishna, Nagalla; Bandosz, Piotr; Barbagallo, Carlo M.; Barcelo, Alberto; Batieha, Anwar M.; Baur, Louise A.; Benet, Mikhail; Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio; Bharadwaj, Sumit; Bhargava, Santosh K.; Bi, Yufang; Bjertness, Espen; Bjertness, Marius Bergsmark; Björkelund, Cecilia; Blokstra, Anneke; Bo, Simona; Boehm, Bernhard O; Boissonnet, Carlos P; Bovet, Pascal; Brajkovich, Imperia; Breckenkamp, Juergen; Brenner, Hermann; Brewster, Lizzy M; Brian, Garry R; Bruno, Graziella; Bugge, Anna; De Leon, Antonio Cabrera; Can, Gunay; Cåndido, Ana Paula C; Capuano, Vincenzo; Carlsson, Axel C; Carvalho, Maria J; Casanueva, Felipe F; Casas, Juan-Pablo; Caserta, Carmelo A; Castetbon, Katia; Chamukuttan, Snehalatha; Chaturvedi, Nishi; Chen, Chien-Jen; Chen, Fangfang; Chen, Shuohua; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Chetrit, Angela; Chiou, Shu-Ti; Cho, Yumi; Chudek, Jerzy; Cifkova, Renata; Claessens, Frank; Concin, Hans; Cooper, Cyrus; Cooper, Rachel; Costanzo, Simona; Cottel, Dominique; Cowell, Chris; Crujeiras, Ana B; D'Arrigo, Graziella; Dallongeville, Jean; Dankner, Rachel; Dauchet, Luc; De Gaetano, Giovanni; De Henauw, Stefaan; Deepa, Mohan; Dehghan, Abbas; Deschamps, Valerie; Dhana, Klodian; Di Castelnuovo, Augusto F; Djalalinia, Shirin; Doua, Kouamelan; Drygas, Wojciech; Du, Yong; Dzerve, Vilnis; Egbagbe, Eruke E; Eggertsen, Robert; El Ati, Jalila; Elosua, Roberto; Erasmus, Rajiv T; Erem, Cihangir; Ergor, Gul; Eriksen, Louise; Escobedo-De La Pena, Jorge; Fall, Caroline H; Farzadfar, Farshad; Felix-Redondo, Francisco J; Ferguson, Trevor S; Fernandez-Berges, Daniel; Ferrari, Marika; Ferreccio, Catterina; Feskens, Edith JM; Finn, Joseph D; Föger, Bernhard; Foo, Leng Huat; Forslund, Ann-Sofie; Francis, Damian K; Do Carmo Franco, Maria; Franco, Oscar H; Frontera, Guillermo; Furusawa, Takuro; Gaciong, Zbigniew; Garnett, Sarah P; Gaspoz, Jean-Michel; Gasull, Magda; Gates, Louise; Geleijnse, Johanna M; Ghasemian, Anoosheh; Ghimire, Anup; Giampaoli, Simona; Gianfagna, Francesco; Giovannelli, Jonathan; Giwercman, Aleksander; Gross, Marcela Gonzalez; Rivas, Juan P Gonzalez; Gorbea, Mariano Bonet; Gottrand, Frederic; Grafnetter, Dusan; Grodzicki, Tomasz; Grøntved, Anders; Gruden, Grabriella; Gu, Dongfeng; Guan, Ong Peng; Guerrero, Ramiro; Guessous, Idris; Guimaraes, Andre L; Gutierrez, Laura; Hambleton, Ian R; Hardy, Rebecca; Kumar, Rachakulla Hari; Hata, Jun; He, Jiang; Heidemann, Christin; Herrala, Sauli; Hihtaniemi, Ilpo Tapani; Ho, Sai Yin; Ho, Suzanne C; Hofman, Albert; Hormiga, Claudia M; Horta, Bernardo L; Houti, Leila; Howitt, Christina; Htay, Thein Thein; Htet, Aung Soe; Htike, Maung Maung Than; Hu, Yang; Hussieni, Abdullatif S; Huybrechts, Inge; Hwalla, Nahla; Iacoviello, Licia; Iannone, Anna G; Ibrahim, M Mohsen; Ikeda, Nayu; Ikram, M Arfan; Irazola, Vilma E; Islam, Muhammad; Iwasaki, Masanori; Jacobs, Jeremy M; Jafar, Tazeen; Jamil, Kazi M; Jasienska, Grazyna; Jiang, Chao Qiang; Jonas, Jost B; Joshi, Pradeep; Kafatos, Anthony; Kalter-Leibovici, Ofra; Kasaeian, Amir; Katz, Joanne; Kaur, Prabhdeep; Kavousi, Maryam; Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka; Kelishadi, Roya; Kengne, Andre P; Kersting, Mathilde; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Khalili, Davood; Khang, Young-Ho; Kiechl, Stefan; Kim, Jeongseon; Kolsteren, Patrick; Korrovits, Paul; Kratzer, Wolfgang; Kromhout, Daan; Kujala, Urho M; Kula, Krzysztof; Kyobutungi, Catherine; Laatikainen, Tiina; Lachat, Carl; Laid, Youcef; Lam, Tai Hing; Landrove, Orlando; Lanska, Vera; Lappas, Georg; Laxmaiah, Avula; Leclercq, Catherine; Lee, Jeannette; Lee, Jeonghee; Lehtimäki, Terho; Lekhraj, Rampal; Leon-Munoz, Luz M; Li, Yanping; Lim, Wei-Yen; Lima-Costa, M Fernanda; Lin, Hsien-Ho; Lin, Xu; Lissner, Lauren; Lorbeer, Roberto; Lozano, Jose Eugenio; Luksiene, Dalia; Lundqvist, Annamari; Lytsy, Per; Machado-Coelho, George LL; Machi, Suka; Maggi, Stefania; Magliano, Dianna J; Makdisse, Marcia; Rao, Kodavanti Mallikharjuna; Manios, Yannis; Manzato, Enzo; Margozzini, Paula; Marques-Vidal, Pedro; Martorell, Reynaldo; Masoodi, Shariq R; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Matsha, Tandi E; McFarlane, Shelly R; McLachlan, Stela; McNulty, Breige A; Mediene-Benchekor, Sounnia; Meirhaeghe, Aline; Menezes, Ana Maria B; Merat, Shahin; Meshram, Indrapal I; Mi, Jie; Miquel, Juan Francisco; Mohamed, Mostafa K; Mohammad, Kazem; Mohammadifard, Noushin; Mohd Yusoff, Muhammad Fadhli; Møller, Niels C; Molnar, Denes; Mondo, Charles K; Morejon, Alain; Moreno, Luis A; Morgan, Karen; Moschonis, George; Mossakowska, Malgorzata; Mostafa, Aya; Mota, Jorge; Motta, Jorge; Mu, Thet Thet; Muiesan, Maria Lorenza; Muller-Nurasyid, Martina; Mursu, Jaakko; Nagel, Gabriele; Namesna, Jana; Nang, Ei Ei K; Nangia, Vinay B; Navarrete-Munoz, Eva Maria; Ndiaye, Ndeye Coumba; Nenko, Ilona; Nervi, Flavio; Nguyen, Nguyen D; Nguyen, Quang Ngoc; Nieto-Martinez, Ramfis E; Ning, Guang; Ninomiya, Toshiharu; Noale, Marianna; Noto, Davide; Al Nsour, Mohannad; Ochoa-Aviles, Angelica M; Oh, Kyungwon; Ordunez, Pedro; Osmond, Clive; Otero, Johanna A; Owusu-Dabo, Ellis; Pahomova, Elena; Palmieri, Luigi; Panda-Jonas, Songhomitra; Panza, Francesco; Parsaeian, Mahboubeh; Peixoto, Sergio Viana; Peltonen, Markku; Peters, Annette; Peykari, Niloofar; Pham, Son Thai; Pitakaka, Freda; Piwonska, Aleksandra; Piwonski, Jerzy; Plans-Rubio, Pedro; Porta, Miquel; Portegies, Marileen LP; Poustchi, Hossein; Pradeepa, Rajendra; Price, Jacqueline F; Punab, Margus; Qasrawi, Radwan F; Qorbani, Mostafa; Radisauskas, Ricardas; Rahman, Mahmudur; Raitakari, Olli; Rao, Sudha Ramachandra; Ramke, Jacqueline; Ramos, Rafel; Rampal, Sanjay; Rathmann, Wolfgang; Redon, Josep; Reganit, Paul Ferdinand M; Rigo, Fernando; Robinson, Sian M; Robitaille, Cynthia; Rodriguez-Artalejo, Fernando; Del CristoRodriguez-Perez, Maria; Rodriguez-Villamizar, Laura A; Rojas-Martinez, Rosalba; Ronkainen, Kimmo; Rosengren, Annika; Rubinstein, Adolfo; Rui, Ornelas; Ruiz-Betancourt, Blanca Sandra; Horimoto, Andrea RV Russo; Rutkowski, Marcin; Sabanayagam, Charumathi; Sachdev, Harshpal S; Saidi, Olfa; Sakarya, Sibel; Salanave, Benoit; Salonen, Jukka T; Salvetti, Massimo; Sanchez-Abanto, Jose; Santos, Diana; Dos Santos, Renata Nunes; Santos, Rute; Saramies, Jouko L; Sardinha, Luis B; Sarrafzadegan, Nizal; Saum, Kai-Uwe; Scazufca, Marcia; Schargrodsky, Herman; Scheidt-Nave, Christa; Sein, Aye Aye; Sharma, Sanjb K; Shaw, Jonathan E; Shibuya, Kenji; Shin, Youchan; Shiri, Rahman; Siantar, Rosalynn; Sibai, Abla M; Simon, Mary; Simons, Judith; Simons, Leon A; Sjostrom, Michael; Slowikowska-Hilczer, Jolanta; Slusarczyk, Przemyslaw; Smeeth, Liam; Snijder, Marieke B; So, Hung-Kwan; Sobngwi, Eugene; Söderberg, Stefan; Solfrizzi, Vincenzo; Sonestedt, Emily; Soumare, Aicha; Staessen, Jan A; Stathopoulou, Maria G; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Stehle, Peter; Stein, Aryeh D; Stessman, Jochanan; Stöckl, Doris; Stokwiszewski, Jakub; Stronks, Karien; Strufaldi, Maria Wany; Sun, Chien-An; Sundström, Johan; Sung, Yn-Tz; Suriyawongpaisal, Paibul; Sy, Rody G; Tai, E Shyong; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Tang, Line; Tarawneh, Mohammed; Tarqui-Mamani, Carolina B; Taylor, Anne; Theobald, Holger; Thijs, Lutgarde; Thuesen, Betina H; Tolonen, Hanna K; Tolstrup, Janne S; Topbas, Murat; Torrent, Maties; Traissac, Pierre; Trinh, Oanh TH; Tulloch-Reid, Marshall K; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Turley, Maria L; Tzourio, Christophe; Ueda, Peter; Ukoli, Flora AM; Ulmer, Hanno; Uusitalo, Hannu MT; Valdivia, Gonzalo; Valvi, Damaskini; Van Rossem, Lenie; Van Valkengoed, Irene GM; Vanderschueren, Dirk; Vanuzzo, Diego; Vega, Tomas; Velasquez-Melendez, Gustavo; Veronesi, Giovanni; Verschuren, WM Monique; Verstraeten, Roosmarijn; Viet, Lucie; Vioque, Jesus; Virtanen, Jyrki K; Visvikis-Siest, Sophie; Viswanathan, Bharathi; Vollenweider, Peter; Voutilainen, Sari; Vrijheid, Martine; Wade, Alisha N; Wagner, Aline; Walton, Janette; Wan Mohamud, Wan Nazaimoon; Wang, Feng; Wang, Ming-Dong; Wang, Qian; Wang, Ya Xing; Wannamethee, S Goya; Weerasekera, Deepa; Whincup, Peter H; Widhalm, Kurt; Wiecek, Andrzej; Wijga, Alet H; Wilks, Rainford J; Willeit, Johann; Wilsgaard, Tom; Wojtyniak, Bogdan; Wong, Tien Yin; Woo, Jean; Woodward, Mark; Wu, Frederick C; Wu, Shou Ling; Xu, Haiquan; Yan, Weili; Yang, Xiaoguang; Ye, Xingwang; Yoshihara, Akihiro; Younger-Coleman, Novie O; Zambon, Sabina; Zargar, Abdul Hamid; Zdrojewski, Tomasz; Zhao, Wenhua; Zheng, Yingfeng; Cisneros, Julio Zuñiga (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-09)
      Background:<br>One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the agestandardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are aff ecting the number of adults ...