The Seven Countries Study

History of the Cretan cohort of the Seven Countries Study.

It was a great pleasure to read the manuscript of Hatzis CM et al, 2013, published in the Hormones Journal.1 This article presented the results for cardiovascular risk factors of the Cretan cohort of the Seven Countries Study (SCS). The SCS was initiated in mid-1950 at the University of Minnesota by Professor Ancel Keys (Figure 1), with a follow-up every 10 years in most participating countries...

The Seven Countries Study: the Lessons for Cardiovascular Specialists

The Seven Countries Study (SCS) is a classical epidemiological observational study that began in the 1950s and was carried out for 25 years. The study had 16 population samples of men, aged 40 to 59 y at entry, who live in seven different countries in three continents (United States, Japan, Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, former Yugoslavia, and Greece). At entry field examination, several indi...

Innovativity: a Comparison across Seven European Countries

Medical Care Expenditures in Seven Countries

More than 5 years have passed since publication of Brian Abel-Smith’s study for the World Health Organization (WHO) ;1 It still is widely recognized as the only definitive study in the international health field with adequate comparability of data. An earlier Social Security Administration (SSA) analysis, attempting to update the figures in the 1967 WHO study, appeared in the BULLETIN for Decem...

Alcohol and survival in the Italian rural cohorts of the Seven Countries Study.

BACKGROUND Middle-aged men who regularly drink a moderate amount of alcohol have lower mortality rates from all causes in comparison with abstainers and heavy drinkers. This cohort study looks at the relationship between alcohol consumption and long-term survival, adjusting for smoking habit and physical activity. METHODS In 1965, a total of 1536 Italian males aged 45-65 years underwent an ex...