THE PARADOX OF HIGH RISK OF STROKE IN POPULATION WITH LOW RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE

The “paradoxical” occurrence of high rates of stroke and low rates of coronary heart disease observed in Asian and other populations has been examined using accumulated clinical and autopsy data obtained during the long-term follow-up from 1965 to 1985 of cohorts of Japanese men living in Hawail and Japan. The search for explanatory variables revealed three with the characteristics of having both opposing patterns of associations with clinical...