Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date Collection: 2014
Publication date
(Electronic):
8
April
2014
Volume: 9
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e94344
Affiliations
[1
]Epidemiology and Public Health Department, University College London, London, United
Kingdom
[2
]Department of CVD Epidemiology, Prevention, and Health Promotion, the Cardinal Stefan
Wyszynski Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
[3
]Environmental Health Monitoring System, National Institute of Public Health, Prague,
Czech Republic
[4
]Institute of Internal and Preventive Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy
of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
[5
]State Novosibirsk Medical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
[6
]Department of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Faculty
of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
[7
]Laboratory of Population Research, Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University
of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
[8
]Preventive Cardiology Department, Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine,
Prague, Czech Republic
Bielefeld Evangelical Hospital, Germany
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Conceived and designed the experiments: OV GB RK SM AP AT ZS GS MB HP. Performed the
experiments: OV GB RK SM AP AT ZS GS MB HP. Analyzed the data: OV. Wrote the paper:
OV MB HP. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content and
approved the final draft: OV GB RK SM AP AT ZS GS MB HP.
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-13-52154
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094344
PMC ID: 3979770
PubMed ID: 24714549
SO-VID: 9bad7582-453f-4efa-820a-0710ca9ea3b6
Copyright statement:
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2014
License:
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
The WHO MONICA Project in the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia was supported
by the Czech and Polish Ministries of Health, the Polish National Committee for Scientific
Research, the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science, and the Russian Academy
of Medical Sciences. The HAPIEE study has been supported by the Wellcome Trust (grant
numbers 064947/Z/01/Z, 081081/Z/06/Z); the National Institute of Aging (1R01 AG23522);
and the MacArthur Foundation (71208). The funders had no role in study design, data
collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Cardiology
Subject:
Epidemiology
Subject:
Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology
Subject:
Social Epidemiology
Subject:
Health Care
Subject:
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Subject:
Public and Occupational Health
Subject:
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Subject:
Vascular Medicine
Subject:
Atherosclerosis
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Research Design
Subject:
Clinical Research Design
Subject:
Cohort Studies