The "Vienna Health Study 79"
Junker, E.
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 131(21): 517-518
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5341 PMID: 7314635 Document Number: 170297
As an introduction to the following special articles, backgrounds, aims and modalities of the "Vienna Health Study 79" are exposed. A sample of 2,800 citizen of Vienna at the ages of 25, 40 and 60 years was examined medically to assess age-specific prevalence figures of the most important chronic diseases and, additionally, of their relations to social and medical risk factors.