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Cigarette smoking, raised blood pressure, unfavourable lipid concentrations, diabetes and – more indirectly – obesity, are responsible for most coronary heart disease events in developed and developing countries.The objective of our study was to compare prevalence, treatment and control of cardiovascular risk factors in two samples of men with stable coronary heart disease, recruited in France and...
To test the hypothesis that smokers have a higher frequency of the metabolic syndrome, and a syndrome with different characteristics than non-smokers. The 2,569 men and 2,637 women included in the D.E.S.I.R. study, aged 30–64 years, volunteers from ten French Social Security Health Examination Centres, were studied. The World Health Organization definition of the metabolic syndrome was adapted...
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