aInstitute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
bDepartment of Public Health, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
cDepartment of Internal Medicine, Venice City Hospital, Venice, Italy
dDepartment of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
eInstitute of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
fDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
Correspondence to Professor Ulrich Keil, PhD, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Domagkstr. 3, 48149 Münster, GermanyTel: +49 251 83 55396; fax: +49 251 83 55300; e-mail: keilu@uni-muenster.de
Abbreviations: AMI, acute myocardial infarction; CABG, coronary artery bypass graft; CHD, coronary heart disease; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention
Received 16 February, 2011
Revised 14 April, 2011
Accepted 18 May, 2011
Parts of the manuscript were presented at the EUROPREVENT Congress 2008 in Paris, France, on 1 May 2008, at the EUROPREVENT Congress 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden, on 7 May 2009, at the IEA-EEF Congress of Epidemiology 2009 in Warsaw, Poland, on 29 August 2009, and at the DGEpi Congress 2009 in Münster, Germany, on 17 September 2009.
