Analysis of the relationship between total cholesterol, age, body mass index among males and females in the WHO MONICA Project.

Objective: To explore the relationship between hypercholesterolaemia, age and BMI among females and males.

Design: Population-based cross-sectional survey.

Subjects: The data came from the initial surveys of the WHO MONICA Project.

[Decrease in cardiovascular disease mortality in the Czech Republic from 1984 to 1993 and its possible causes].

Background: The objective of the investigation was to evaluate the ten-year development of the cardiovascular mortality rate in two population groups in the age bracket from 25 to 64 years, i.e. in subjects living in six districts which participated in the international WHO project MONICA and in the population of the whole Czech Republic.

[Is the recent decrease in cholesterolemia in the Czech Republic convincing evidence?].

Background: The objective of the study was to evaluate the 8-year trend of serum cholesterol levels in six districts of the Czech Republic, to assess whether the reduction of mean values of total cholesterol recorded during the period between 1985 and 1992 was convincing and to discuss possible causes and consequences of this development.

Methods And Results: Three cross-sectional surveys of risk factors were implemented in independent random 1% samples of the population aged 25-64 years. In 1985 1256 men (respondence rate 81.

[Standardization of the methods of lipid determination according to WHO in the regional project of prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Friuli-Venezia Giulia].

Background: The recognition of dyslipidemias as a major modifiable risk factor for atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease underlines the need to obtain precise and accurate assay results of plasma lipids. Today the use of automatic laboratory methods and of internal quality control favours the precision of the results but does not guarantee accuracy. The efficiency of a laboratory can be ensured by a standardization programme, systematically monitoring precision and accuracy by means of independent internal and external quality control, international reference standards (e.

The effect of body fat distribution on cardiovascular risk factors in the population of the Czech Republic.

A study of cardiovascular risk factors including anthropometry was performed as part of the MONICA project in 1988 in the population of six districts of the Czech Republic. In addition to probands' weight and height, the circumferences of waist and hips were measured to calculate the index of body fat distribution given as WHR (wast/hip ratio). In the age group of 25-64 years, WHR was significantly higher in men (0.