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Reflection and perspective are invited, collected, and presented here about the causes, care, control, prevention, epidemiology, and public policy of heart attacks.

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The Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene’s original mission
Ancel Keys’s 1958 master plan for the Seven Countries Study (SCS)
Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. State of the Art in 1990. Coronary Disease-CVD-Trends
Ocshner on Lung Cancer: Corner of History
Ancel Keys’s Pioneer Contributions to Science
MRFIT 1971
Inside Food Policy
CVD Epi Course
Dietary cholesterol effect on total serum cholesterol level
The Mediterranean Diet
International Cardiology and Research
An On-going sometimes amusing exchange with George Mann
The JUMBO proposal for a Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. 1969
The Fat of the Land
Population Prevention of CVD 1990
CVD Epidemiology and Prevention ‘Classics’ References
Relationships of Diet and Chronic Disease
The 1973 LPH course in the new science of CVD Epidemiology
The Missions of Schools of Public Health
Appreciation of the University of Minnesota
Martha Keys Memorial Lecture
Panel On Causation
CVD Epidemiology: Where We Are – Ancel Keys’s retirement address to AHA Council
Ancel Keys on “Mountain of Cheese”
Shekelle-Blackburn on Origins of “Low-Fat”
A. Keys response to G. Mann’s 1977 NEJM Op-Ed: “Diet-Heart. End of an Era.”
Keys response to Yudkin sugar hypothesis
The Olestra Story
University-Industry Relations: Academic freedom or academic license? Institutions-Reports
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Volume I
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Vol. II
George Mann–John Gofman Episode Personalities
Henry Blackburn Memoirs Memoirs
Division Mission. Division of Epidemiology, 1985
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Finis
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Minnesota Code. Background and Correspondence
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Minnesota Code
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Archive
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Fairy Tale of Fats
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Low-Coronary-Risk Male
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Misery in Old Delhi
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Undercover for the CIA
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Agi’s Story
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Auschwitz Survivor
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Back to Business in Minnesota, 1971-72, “Henry, the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene May Be Shut Down!”
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Makarska Conference and 10-Day International Seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia, September, 1968
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – International Symposium on the Preventive Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, May, 1968
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Conception of the 10-Day International Seminars in CVD Epidemiology
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The International Society and Foundation of Cardiology, It’s Research Committee and Scientific Councils
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Howard Burchell and Circulation
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Part 11 – The American Heart Association’s Council on Epidemiology
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Physical Activity Pilot Trial
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Coronary Drug Project (CDP)
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP)
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Part 10 – The National Diet-Heart Study
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Renaissance Man in the Forest
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Fit Finns
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Healing Power of Jazz
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Seven Countries Study in Brief
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The “Real Story” Behind the Seven Countries Study
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Background of the Seven Countries Study
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Part 9 – Project Officer, The Seven Countries Study, 1957-72
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The World Congress of Cardiology, Brussels, 1958
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Career Mandate
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Oh! To Be a Research Fellow
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – M.S. in Medicine
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Once Again, a Fast Start
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – An Offer from Ancel Keys
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – “The Lab”
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Bad Case of Diabetes – and Guilt
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Old Ancker Hospital, 1956
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Senior, then Chief, Resident
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Heroic Surgery
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Army-McCarthy Hearing and Other Amusements
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Golden Era at the VA Hospital
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Transition Europa-Minnesota
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – New Year’s Eve Melodrama, December 31, 1951
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Hungarian Goulash
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Austrian Journal
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Back in the Service Again
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – To London With Love
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Paris Miscellany
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Current Reading
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The American Hospital of Paris Yesteryear Pt. 4
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The American Hospital of Paris Yesteryear Pt. 3
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The American Hospital of Paris Yesteryear Pt. 2
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Heaven Relived
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Paris Impressionism
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The American Hospital of Paris Yesteryear
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – On An Ocean Liner to France
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Letter from Cuba
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Pigs and Pears
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Batista Medicine Face to Face
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Special Night in the Tropics
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Cuban Journal
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Part 4 – Medical Mission to Cuba, Summer, 1949
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Letter From Paris
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Last Days of Internship
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Electroshock Therapy (EST)
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – An Intern’s Journal Resumes
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – “This Is What We’re Getting for Interns These Days”
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Scopolamania
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Night Rachel Died
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Letters Home from Intership
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – An Intern’s Journal
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Fair-Haired Boy
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Part 3 – Rotating Internship: Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital, 1948-49
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The Amenities
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Medical School Commencement, June 1948
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Coasting Out
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Bound for Paris!
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Politics, Henry Wallace, and Harold Stassen
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Society of Jesus
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Social Awakening?
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Medical School Journal Resumes Pt. 4
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Baptism at Charity Hospital
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Medical Missionaries
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Return of the Missionary
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Christian Science
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – A Wild Ambulance Ride
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Senior Year Medicine, 1947-1948
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – More Letters Home From Medical School Pt. 4
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Medical School Journal Resumes Pt. 3
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – An Unusual Tonsillectomy
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – More Letters Home From Medical School Pt. 3
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Letter from a Missionary Friend
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – More Letters Home from Medical School Pt. 2
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Medical School Journal Resumes Pt. 2
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Junior Year Medicine, 1946-47
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Medical School Journal Resumes
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – More Letters Home From Medical School
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Ash Wednesday
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Mardi Gras, 1946
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Sophomore Year Medicine, 1945-1946
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Extern, The U.S. Marine Hospital of New Orleans
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Letters Home from Medical School
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Gross Anatomy!
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Freshman Year Medicine, 1944-1945
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – The End of Adolescence
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Key West Naval Hospital
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Letters Home from the Navy
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Letters Home from College
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Riding Hearse
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Part 1 – The Pre-Medical Years, 1942-44
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Preface
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Foreword
“If It Isn’t Fun.” – Dedication
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The Guns of Viéques
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The Tobacco Trials
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Minnesota Heart Health Program
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Minnesota Heart Survey
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Minnesota Community Studies
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – MRFIT, Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – A Generation of Preventive Trials
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – John Farquhar
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – John Vilandre
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Gerald Berenson
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Cheryl Perry
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Jane Brody
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Edith Leyasmeyer
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Paul McGovern
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Russell Luepker
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Ancel Keys
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Nedra Foster Conrow
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Martha Keys
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Frederick Epstein
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Victor Hawthorne
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Henry Longstreet Taylor
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Denis and Olive Burkitt
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Geoffrey Rose
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – W. Albert Sullivan
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Joseph Anderson
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Noboru Kimura
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Part 9 – Encomiums and Eulogies
‘It Isn’t Always Fun’: The Engines of Epidemiology
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Lab Smoking Policy
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Writing 101
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Preparing a Grant Proposal
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – A Certain Age
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Dr. Goodhands
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Evolution and Culture
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Elegance in Medicine
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – High-tech Medicine
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Young-investigator Awards
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Failure Breeds Success
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – A Mann Apart
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Medical Charismatics
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Part 6 – Essays, Opinion, and Lectures
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The Guns of Viéques
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The States’ Attorneys General Tobacco Industry Trials
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Part 5 – Vacating the Chair
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The FDA Food Advisory Committee, 1995-2000
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The NHLBI Advisory Council, 1989-93
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The NAS/NRC Diet and Health Report, 1985-89
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Part 4 – All-consuming Committee Work
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Photographs and Documents
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Introduction
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Part 8 On the History Trail
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Our Beef with the Ag Campus
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The American Heart Association Nutrition Committee
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The NIH/EDC Study Section
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Optimal Plasma Lipids
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Kennedy-Hart and Big Tobacco
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The Incredible Edible Egg
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The U.S.-Soviet Health Treaty
“It Isn’t Always Fun” – On Giving Advice
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Part 2 – Life Off Campus
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – An Oasis in the Sahara
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Australia. A Mini Sabbatical
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Berlin Diary
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – A Caribbean Cruise for Science
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – The Tahoe 10-Day Seminar
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – A Junket “Down Under”
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – In Spain, the Rain
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Part 3 – Travels
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Preface
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Foreword
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Acknowledgements
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – First Things
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – Dedication
“It Isn’t Always Fun.” Memoir Vol. II
Grant Writing. A Homily
Ancel and Margaret Keys Remembered Personalities
EARLY CVD PREVENTION TRIALS (1946-1973) Studies
EARLY CVD COHORT STUDIES (1946-1972) Studies
Report of the Ad Hoc Panel on Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease 1969 Institutions-Reports
Pierre Ducimetiere on early CVD epidemiology in France Perspective
Commentary: Observation Versus Experiment Study Design-Methods
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in CVD Prevention Institutions-Reports
The 1937 U.S. National Cancer Act: critical precedent for heart disease research Institutions-Reports
The Medicalization of Prevention: Whither epidemiology, prevention research and program? Perspective
The Emergence of Institutions and a Community for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention Institutions-Reports
World Health Organization (WHO) Cardiovascular Disease Unit. 1959-1990 Institutions-Reports
The International Society of Cardiology (ISC) and CVD Epidemiology Institutions-Reports
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and CVD Epidemiology in the UK Institutions-Reports
Yater’s study of coronary heart disease in young men Studies
Case Control Studies in CVD Epidemiology Study Design-Methods
Henry Blackburn on ‘The Beef’ with the University Ag Campus: A Study in Academic Ill Will Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Reverend Stephen Hales on Blood Pressure Other Risk Factors
The ‘Mediterranean Diet’ in 2011 Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Zdenek Fejfar on the WHO Cardiovascular Diseases Unit in Geneva Institutions-Reports
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Joseph Mountin Institutions-Reports
On Priority in Multivariable Analysis of Coronary Risk Study Design-Methods
Henry Blackburn on Writing Grant Proposals: A Homily Study Design-Methods
William J. Zukel on the Early Nutrition Activities Under the National Heart Act of 1948 Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
William Connor on the Tarahumara Indians Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Frits Meijler on ‘Diet-Heart’: A Naysayer’s View Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
The Field Trial: Fredrickson’s “Indispensable Ordeal” 1968 Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
J- and U-Shaped Associations Study Design-Methods
AHA Ancel Keys Lecturers Institutions-Reports
Paul D. White and James Watt: The Early Vision of CVD Leaders, 1956 Perspective
Evolution of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Scores. A.Menotti, H. Blackburn Perspective
The 1937 National Cancer Act: precedent for the 1948 National Heart Act Institutions-Reports
Ian Higgins and Archie Cochrane on Classic Demonstration of Observer Variation Study Design-Methods
Raymond Pearl on Alcohol and Longevity Other Risk Factors
Keys and Brozek: The Interdisciplinary Discipline of Physiological Hygiene Perspective
A “Renaissance Man” in the Finnish Forest, 1964 Stories
Early Prevention Message: ‘Your heart has nine lives. Nine steps toheart health.’ 1963. Pocket Books, New York. Institutions-Reports
The First Authoritative Recommendations on Arteriosclerosis 1958 Institutions-Reports
HUAC invades CVD Epidemiology: Stamler v. Willis, 1965 Institutions-Reports
The Minnesota Symposium on Arteriosclerosis, September 7-9, 1955 Institutions-Reports
Henry Blackburn on the Healing Power of Jazz Stories
The Coronary Drug Project (CDP): Birth of a Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Studies
Austin Bradford Hill: Scientific Observation and Experiment are Linked, 1953 Study Design-Methods
Luc Berlivet on Medical Science Advanced by Chronic Disease Epidemiology Perspective
Bradford Hill on Observation versus Experiment Studies
William Heberden on Angina Pectoris, 1772 Coronary Disease-CVD-Trends
Sir Peter Medawar on the Nature of Scientific Thought, Process, and Writing Perspective
Neil Pearce on Malaise in Latter-day Epidemiology Perspective
George Mann’s Editorial on ‘Diet-Heart: End of an Era?’ A Reply Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Critique of Epidemiology: Changing the Terms of the Debate Perspective
Association-Causation in Epidemiology: Stories of Guidelines to Causality Perspective
Ducimetiere on The French Paradox Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Hypertension & Coronary Disease, WHO TR Series #168, Geneva 1959 Institutions-Reports
‘Diet-Heart’ in Britain Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Sir Ronald Fisher and his ‘Millionaire’ Calculator Study Design-Methods
European Society of Cardiology: Epidemiology and Prevention Institutions-Reports
Newton Heart Demonstration Program. Framingham’s 2nd Cousin1949-54 Studies
Hugh Sinclair: An Eccentric and his Theory on Essential Fatty Acids Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
David Jacobs on Dietary Fat, 2008 Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention in Spain: Balaguer-Vintro, Sans, and Menendez Perspective
Chockalingam on Global Challenges for Reducing Sodium Consumption Perspective
AHA Pooling Project: To Pool or not to Pool Institutions-Reports
Tobacco Trials Other Risk Factors
The MONICA Project Studies
Cornelis de Langen: Diet-Heart Theory, 1916 Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Alessandro Menotti and Henry Blackburn on Evolution of the Risk Factor Concept Other Risk Factors
Jozef Victor Joossens and Hugo Kesteloot on Salt, Stroke, and Stomach Cancer Other Risk Factors
Poverty, Epidemics, and Prevention. Bernard Lown Perspective
Early Academic Program at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Institutions-Reports
Kalevi Pyörälä on the Course of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, 1992 Perspective
Ancel Keys on the Mission of the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, 1945 Institutions-Reports
Jerry Stamler on the Tierney-Taube Critique of Epidemiology and ‘Diet-Heart’ Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Humans in Cages Perspective
The University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP): A Famous Early Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) Studies
The Low-Coronary-Risk Male Lives on the Isle of Crete Perspective
Paul D. White: At the Center and Beginning of Everything Perspective
Gunnar Biörk: A Leader Turned Skeptic Perspective
Michael Oliver on the Atherosclerosis Research in the 1950s in Britain and Europe Perspective
CDC/NIH Lipid Standardization Laboratory Institutions-Reports
The United States National Heart Act Institutions-Reports
American Heart Association Nutrition Committee History Institutions-Reports
Minnesota Priority in CVD Epidemiology? A. Keys Perspective
CVD Epidemiology Takes Mainstage, 1954 Institutions-Reports
‘Circular Epidemiology’: Re-Analyzing Ourselves to Death? L. Kuller Perspective
Evolution and Culture in Modern Mass Diseases Perspective
It’s Surveillance, Surveillance, Surveillance Study Design-Methods
Epidemiology as a Bridge Perspective
Center for Science in the Public Interest: M. Jacobson Seminar, 2001 Institutions-Reports
First National Conference on CVD 1950 Institutions-Reports
Second National Conference on CVD 1964 Institutions-Reports
Millicent Higgins on NHLBI Institutions-Reports
William Friedewald on The Friedewald Equation Study Design-Methods
Leonard Syme on Psychosocial Risk Other Risk Factors
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe on WHO Myocardial Infarction Registers Studies
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe overview of the WHO Surveillance Study MONICA Studies
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe on precursors to the WHO MONICA Project Studies
Evolution of CVD Epidemiology in Italy. A. Menotti Perspective
Jeremy Morris on Physical Activity and Coronary Disease Other Risk Factors
Gardner McMillan on 40 years of NIH Researches in Atherosclerosis Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
A Transition from the Early to the Modern Era of CVD Epidemiology: ‘The Pause,’ 1968 to 1972 Institutions-Reports
Martti Karvonen on the Finnish Mental Hospital Study Studies
John Vilandre on How Data Processing and Computing Developed in One Center of CVD Epidemiology Study Design-Methods
Proceedings of the First National Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases, Washington, DC, January 18-20, 1950 Study Design-Methods
Henry Blackburn on ‘The Minnesota Code for Electrocardiograms (ECG) in Population Studies’ Study Design-Methods
Theodore Cooper Announces Giant Leap in CVD Research Policy, 1972 Perspective
Princeton Conference on Methodology in Epidemiological Studies of Cardiovascular Diseases Study Design-Methods
Brookline Conference on Longitudinal Cardiovascular Studies Study Design-Methods
Founding of the National Heart Institute’s Advisory Council, 1948 Institutions-Reports
Cardiovascular Disease Survey Methods: WHO Technical Manual No. 56, WHO, Geneva, 1968 Study Design-Methods
Geoffrey Rose’s Prevention Paradox Perspective
The Rise and Fall of Hormone Replacement Therapy Perspective
The USPHS Heart Disease and Stroke Control Program Institutions-Reports
Arden House Conference on the Epidemiology of Atherosclerosis and Hypertension Study Design-Methods
The ‘Great Leap’ post-war of CVD Epidemiology to and within Europe Institutions-Reports
Len Syme on the Evans County Study-Curtis Hames takes on the Bureaucrats Studies
Sudden Death Coronary Disease-CVD-Trends
Obesity in Capsule Other Risk Factors
Tobacco in Capsule Other Risk Factors
Physical Activity in Capsule Other Risk Factors
Hypertension in Capsule Other Risk Factors
The Diet-Lipid-Heart Disease Hypothesis in Capsule Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Wartime Mortality and Pathology Coronary Disease-CVD-Trends
Mary Lasker on the National Heart Act Institutions-Reports
Contributions of CVD Epidemiology (part 3): “Bottom Line” and Policy Perspective
Contributions of CVD Epidemiology (part 2): Laboratory and Clinical Science Perspective
Contributions of CVD Epidemiology (part 1): Understanding Perspective
The Polypill Perspective
The Makarska Conference Panel on Causality in Medicine Perspective
R.A. Stallones: A Balanced View of the Diet-Heart Controversy in 1980 Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Famous Polemics on Diet-Heart Theory Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Backsliding in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases Perspective
Why a History? Why now? Perspective
The Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Resources Institutions-Reports
Credo: ‘If it isn’t fun, it isn’t epidemiology’ Perspective
Individual versus Population Views: Diet Recommendations Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
The Quantity or the Quality of Dietary Fats: A Brief Note Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
The Decline: Trends in Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Mortality Coronary Disease-CVD-Trends
The Framingham Study Studies
Keys and Companions Set off on an Enlightening World Tour Personalities
Character and Traits of Pioneers in CVD Epidemiology Personalities
Recognition of Cardiac Infarction During Life Coronary Disease-CVD-Trends
Multiple Risk Factor Intervention: The Concept and Consequences Perspective
Darwin Labarthe on the Epidemiologic Transition Perspective
Early informal cross-cultural studies Studies
The Tale of the Missing Lipoproteins Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
The Epstein-Boas study of New York City Garment Workers Studies
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Institutions-Reports
CVD Epidemiology Spreads Around the World Perspective
History of Heart Attack: Diagnosis and Understanding Coronary Disease-CVD-Trends
Historical Import of Physical Activity Other Risk Factors
Platt-Pickering Debate the Nature of Blood Pressure Other Risk Factors
Jeremiah Stamler on the Origins of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Optimal Blood Lipid Levels: An International Report Institutions-Reports
‘If Eating Fat is the Issue, Why not Study the Eskimos’ Diet-Heart: Hypothesis to Theory to Practice to Policy
Methods for the Field and Computation Study Design-Methods
University-Industry Relations. Academic freedom or academic license?