Why the study?
Did cardiovascular risk factors decrease in healthy 40-year-old Swedish men between 1980-1983 and 1991-1992?
Population
224 healthy 40-year-old men from the Stockholm Metropolitan Area, Sweden
Comparison
Assessment in 1991-1992 vs Assessment in 1980-1983
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Supports ongoing prevention monitoring in middle-aged men; leaves open generalizability and drivers beyond this cross-sectional sample.
Did cardiovascular risk factors decrease in healthy 40-year-old Swedish men between 1980-1983 and 1991-1992?
There was a favorable secular trend in cardiovascular risk factors, including lower systolic blood pressure and cholesterol, among middle-aged Swedish men between 1980 and 1992.
Tornvall et al. (1996) studied this question.
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