[The scientific basis and evaluation of the present-day concept of risk factors and their significance for the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases].
Chronic diseases increased in their significance, to them first of all belong cardiovascular diseases. They particularly restrict a further increase of the life-expectancy of the persons older than 40 years. In the judgement of the development of these groups of diseases during the last decades the so-called concept of risk factors was developed, which obtained particular significance for the myocardial infarction and the chronic cardiovascular diseases. Though the epidemiologic investigations up to now could cover only correlations and not causal connections, the latter - that means causal conditions - seem to get an increasing support by results of the adequate basic research. Still more impressionable is, however, the regression of the mortality due to cardiovascular diseases which took place during recent years in connection with the changes of the living habits in several countries of the earth. From the results of our own research the particular urgencies concerning the preventive medicine in our country are described which must consist in changes of the living habits, in particular of the habits of nutrition and the abuse of coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, etc., moreover also in personal behaviour. Independent of this genetic factors certainly play a decisive part. Apart from the individual strategy mass-strategic aspects will obtain a greater importance in the following years.
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Abteilung für Kardiologie, Medizinischen Akademie Erfurt.
D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004032:Diet; D005858:Germany; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008019:Life Style; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors
Zur wissenschaftlichen Basis bzw. zur Absicherung des gegenwärtigen Risikofaktorenkonzepts und seiner Bedeutung für die Prävention chronischer nichtübertragbarer Erkrankungen.