1 INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. TABLES ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. 1 INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I. The Invention of the Risk Factor
7. 2 THE ORIGINS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS 9
8. 3 CENSUSES AND VITAL STATISTICS 22
9. 4 STATISTICAL ANALYSES OF MEDICAL AND SOCIAL DATA 36
10. 5 LIFE INSURANCE AND THE RISK FACTOR 50
11. PART II. Health Education for Healthy Lifestyles
12. 6 CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON URBAN MORTALITY RATES 77
13. 7 THE GERM THEORY AND HEALTH EDUCATION IN DIPHTHERIA AND TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL 95
14. 8 HEALTH EDUCATION AND INFANT MORTALITY IN NEW YORK CITY 119
15. 9 THE METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS 146
16. PART III. The Coronary Heart Disease Epidemic
17. 10 EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY MORTALITY TRENDS AND RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE 179
18. 11 THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CORONARY HEART DISEASE EPIDEMIC 192
19. PART IV. Risk Factors and Coronary Heart Disease
20. 12 CAUSES, CORRELATIONS, AND THE ETIOLOGY OF DISEASE 221
21. 13 CIGARETTE SMOKING AND STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS 238
22. 14 BLOOD PRESSURE AND THE BENEFITS OF TREATMENT 260
23. 15 THE FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY AND THE RISK FACTOR 279
24. 16 THEORIES OF THE CAUSES OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE 286
25. 17 THE DIET-HEART HYPOTHESIS 295
26. 18 DIETARY RECOMMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES 314
27. 19 THE SECULAR DECLINE IN THE CORONARY HEART DISEASE EPIDEMIC 343
28. 20 EPILOGUE 359
29. NOTES 369
30. BIBLIOGRAPHY 427
31. INDEX 455