Table of Contents

I Methods in Epidemiology.- 1 Reflections on Epidemiologic Methodology in the Study of Disease Etiology and Health Services.- 2 The Problem of Response Bias.- 3 Quantification of Health Outcomes for Policy Studies in Behavioral Epidemiology.- II Epidemiology.- 4 Apolipoproteins, the Lipid Hypothesis, and Ischemic Heart Disease.- 5 Alcohol and Cardiovascular Mortality.- 6 The Pros and Cons of Economic Development.- 7 Regional Differences in Mortality in Belgium.- 8 Dietary Components and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality.- 9 The Rationale for Treatment of “Mild” Hypertension.- 10 Dietary Factors and Cancer.- 11 The Control of Diabetes.- 12 Medical Care Utilization and Self-Reported Health of Hypertensives — Results of the Munich Blood Pressure Study.- III Stress.- 13 Life Change, Social Support, Coping, and Health.- 14 Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness: Direct and Indirect Associations with Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality.- 15 Stress, Personality, Immunity, and Cancer: A Challenge for Psychosomatic Medicine.- IV Behavioral Interventions.- 16 Primary Prevention of Hypertension: A Program with Adolescents.- 11 A Family-Based Approach to Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Education.- 18 The Behavioral Management of Type II Diabetes Mellitus.- 19 The Community Studies of the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program.- 20 Exercise and Disease Prevention.- Contributors.- Author Index.