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Preventive Medicine, 1983
Abstract A comprehensive community program for control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was carried out from 1972 to 1977 in the county of North Karelia, Eastern Finland, an area with exceptionally high CVD rates. The primary aim was to reduce CVD mortality and incidence rates among the population through general reduction of smoking rates, serum ...
P, Puska +3 more
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Abstract A comprehensive community program for control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was carried out from 1972 to 1977 in the county of North Karelia, Eastern Finland, an area with exceptionally high CVD rates. The primary aim was to reduce CVD mortality and incidence rates among the population through general reduction of smoking rates, serum ...
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Hypertension Control in North Karelia before the Intervention of the North Karelia Project
Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1980The baseline survey of the North Karelia Project was carried out to measure the level of cardiovascular risk factors in the target population. These data on the prevalence, detection and treatment of hypertension obtained in the survey were utilized in planning the main programme. The survey was carried out in 1972 and 4 275 persons aged from 25 to 59 (
J, Tuomilehto +3 more
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Health-related behaviors in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, and North Karelia, Finland
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1994Risk factors and health behaviors related to chronic diseases were studied in a population survey in Pitkäranta District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, and in North Karelia, Finland, in Spring 1992 (Puska, Matilainen et al., 1993). The random sample of the population (25 to 64 years) was 1,000 in Pitkäranta and 2,000 in North Karelia.
T K, Matilainen +6 more
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Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, and in North Karelia, Finland
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1993Cardiovascular disease risk factors were measured in a population survey in Pitkäranta District in the Republic of Karelia and in North Karelia in Finland in spring 1992. According to official statistics the cardiovascular mortality in the Republic of Karelia is somewhat higher, and total mortality and cancer mortality considerably higher than in North
P, Puska +9 more
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“Karelia Issue”: The Politics and Memory of Karelia in Finland
2012The Karelian borderland between Finland and Russia, with its varying cultural meanings and geographical borders, has been in focus when defining Finnishness as an identity and nationality. This chapter provides a short introduction to the history of Karelianism and the Karelias in Finnish history.
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The North Karelia Youth Programs
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1991Two family-based and two community- and school-based studies have been done in the province of North Karelia in eastern Finland. In the two family-based studies it was possible to decrease serum cholesterol level among children by 15%, showing that to a great extent the extremely high blood cholesterol level among Finnish children can be explained ...
E, Vartiainen +4 more
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Water Resources, 2003
The regularities in the formation and distribution of normal annual subsurface runoff values in the summer and winter low-water periods and for the year as a whole are considered for Karelia and its characteristic regions. Correlation analysis is used to assess the correlation between the distribution of specific groundwater runoff and a number of ...
V. A. Vsevolozhskii, R. P. Kochetkova
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The regularities in the formation and distribution of normal annual subsurface runoff values in the summer and winter low-water periods and for the year as a whole are considered for Karelia and its characteristic regions. Correlation analysis is used to assess the correlation between the distribution of specific groundwater runoff and a number of ...
V. A. Vsevolozhskii, R. P. Kochetkova
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2004
In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid
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In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid
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A review of Taraxacum (Asteraceae) in eastern Finland (Ladoga Karelia and North Karelia)
2013Little is known about changes in the abundance and species composition of dandelions (Taraxacum) in Finland. However, Eastern Finland, the biogeographical provinces of Karelia ladogensis and Karelia borealis, has been explored again since 1985. Carl-Erik Sonck collected dandelions there mainly in the 1940s and published his results later (Sonch 1964a).
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