Do lifestyle and biologic risk factors predict clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis in middle-aged men?
Long-term follow-up supports the predictive utility of traditional risk factors for atherosclerosis and reinforces the need for lifestyle modifications in middle-aged men.
The results of this prospective epidemiologic study provide insights to the long-term predictive utility of the commonly accepted risk factors for coronary heart disease in relation to the different clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis in a middle-aged male cohort followed up for approximately 20 years. These results provide additional support for risk factor modification in middle-aged men and for the encouragement of positive long-term lifestyle changes.
Robert J. Goldberg (Mon,) studied this question.