Invited Commentary: 30-Year Perspective on the Seven Countries Study

In a 1986 article (Am J Epidemiol. 1986;124(6):903–915), Keys et al. described and discussed 15-year findings from 15 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study (SCS), the first systematic study of diet, risk characteristics, disease-specific death rates, and their ecologic and individual associations both among and within whole populations of working men in regions with contrasting traditional diets. The SCS findings included 30-fold cohort...