Cardiovascular risk factors and 10-year all-cause mortality in elderly European male populations. The FINE study

This study aims to examine cardiovascular risk factors in relation to all-cause mortality in elderly populations of different European countries.Men aged 65--84 years from defined administrative areas were enrolled in Finland (rural areas of east and west Finland; n=716), in the Netherlands (the town of Zutphen; n=887), and in Italy (the rural areas of Crevalcore and Montegiorgio; n=682). Ten-year all-cause mortality was studied in relation to...