Leren, Paul, MD

Paul Leren is important to CVD prevention research as director of the first trial of a cholesterol lowering diet in myocardial infarct patients, a project receiving worldwide interest for the method and the favorable results. In 1972 he became Chairman of the Oslo Study, a large population-based cardiovascular risk screening and follow-up study, and the leader of the national research group conducting clinical trials in Norway (Diet and Antismoking Trial, Hypertension Trial). He was Director of the Medical Out-patient Clinic, Ullevaal Hospital from 1972-1990 and Professor of Medicine, University of Oslo, from 1984 until his retirement in 1990.