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. 1999 May 29;318(7196):1471-6.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7196.1471.

Why heart disease mortality is low in France: the time lag explanation

M Law  1 , N Wald
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Why heart disease mortality is low in France: the time lag explanation

M Law et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Relative risk (95% confidence interval) of death from ischaemic heart disease according to alcohol consumption (non-drinkers=1.0; one unit equivalent to a standard drink) in the five largest cohort studies.– (Confidence intervals of relative risk estimates calculated from those of the corresponding absolute mortalities)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Mortality from ischaemic heart disease in men aged 55-64 years in 1992 related to recent and past estimates of animal fat consumption and average serum cholesterol concentrations in 20 countries. Japan was omitted as an outlier in determining the regression lines. The position of France is shown with and without allowing for undercertification of ischaemic heart disease (see table 1). Table 3 shows data used in the graphs and the code for each country
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