Blood glucose may be an alternative to cholesterol in CVD risk prediction chartsJulia Braun
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, Zurich, Switzerland
Cardiovasc Diabetol 12:24. 2013
..We evaluated whether glucose could be used instead of total cholesterol for prediction of fatal CVD using data with long follow-up...
Public health significance of four cardiovascular risk factors assessed 25 years ago in a low prevalence countryDavid Faeh
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Eur J Prev Cardiol 20:151-60. 2013
..Our aim was to examine this association and its public health impact in Switzerland, a country with comparably low CVD mortality...
- Obesity but not overweight is associated with increased mortality risk
David Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben, Switzerland
Eur J Epidemiol 26:647-55. 2011
..Public health interventions should focus on preventing normal- and overweight persons from becoming obese...
- [Does the heart desire mountain air? Impact of altitude on cardiovascular risk]
D Faeh
Institut für Sozial und Präventivmedizin, Universitat Zurich, Zurich
Praxis (Bern 1994) 100:1107-13. 2011
..It is unlikely that classical cardiovascular risk factors substantially influence the altitude effect. In contrast, environmental conditions that depend on altitude could play a role...
- Educational inequalities in mortality and associated risk factors: German--versus French-speaking Switzerland
David Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:567. 2010
..Our aim was to analyze educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the two Swiss regions and to compare this with inequalities in behavioural risk factors and self-rated health...
- Health risk or resource? Gradual and independent association between self-rated health and mortality persists over 30 years
Matthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 7:e30795. 2012
..This study examined whether the SRH-mortality association remained significant 30 years after assessment when adjusting for a wide range of known clinical, behavioural and socio-demographic risk factors...
- Establishing a follow-up of the Swiss MONICA participants (1984-1993): record linkage with census and mortality data
Matthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:562. 2010
..Many countries feature the defect of lacking general population cohorts because they have missed to provide for follow-up information of health surveys...
- Increase in the prevalence of obesity in Switzerland 1982-2007: birth cohort analysis puts recent slowdown into perspective
David Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:644-6. 2010
..As this example shows, simple comparisons of prevalence rates over time could provide a misleading picture of actual trends. Birth cohort analysis may offer a valuable alternative...
- Population specific and up to date cardiovascular risk charts can be efficiently obtained with record linkage of routine and observational data
David Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 8:e56149. 2013
..Our aim was to provide up-to-date and valid CVD risk estimation for a Swiss population using a novel record linkage approach...
- Routine data sources challenge international diabetes Federation extrapolations of national diabetes prevalence in Switzerland
Matthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Diabetes Care 34:2387-9. 2011
..Information on diabetes prevalence in the general population is scarce and often based on extrapolations. We evaluated whether prevalence could be estimated from routine data sources...
- Lower mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke at higher altitudes in Switzerland
David Faeh
University of Zurich, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Circulation 120:495-501. 2009
..In addition, effects of place of birth were rarely considered. Here, we examine mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke in relation to the altitude of the place of residence in 1990 and at birth...
- End-digits preference for self-reported height depends on language
Matthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 8:342. 2008
..End-digit preference can distort estimates of prevalence and other statistical parameters. This study examines end-digit preference for self-reported height and how it relates with sex, age, educational level or cultural affiliation...
- Obesity in Switzerland: do estimates depend on how body mass index has been assessed?
David Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 138:204-10. 2008
..This approach may lead to misclassification of obese subjects and misinterpretation of obesity prevalence and trends. In order to explore this potential bias, we compared studies with measured and self-reported data...
