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The methodology of cardiovascular disease epidemiology. 1978

M Steinbach

Chronic disease epidemiology emerged from a methodological necessity, namely to break the deadlock of the medical science faced with a sudden upsurge of these diseases, especially cardiovascular, after the Second World War. The author analyses the shortcomings of clinical investigation in contrast with the epidemiological approach, the qualitative and quantitative prerequisites of the latter, as well as its methodological instruments, pointing out misunderstandings and improper uses of some terms i.e., epidemiology is not one and the same thing as ecology; epidemiology precludes passive detection; the environmental agent is not identical to the risk factor; the risk factor is not diagnostic. It is worth making these distinctions in order to enhance the value of epidemiology as a first step toward prevention.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011795	Surveys and Questionnaires	Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.	Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D002318	Cardiovascular Diseases	Pathological conditions involving the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM including the HEART; the BLOOD VESSELS; or the PERICARDIUM.	Adverse Cardiac Event,Cardiac Events,Major Adverse Cardiac Events,Adverse Cardiac Events,Cardiac Event,Cardiac Event, Adverse,Cardiac Events, Adverse,Cardiovascular Disease,Disease, Cardiovascular,Event, Cardiac
D004812	Epidemiologic Methods	Research techniques that focus on study designs and data gathering methods in human and animal populations.	Epidemiologic Method,Epidemiological Methods,Methods, Epidemiologic,Epidemiological Method,Method, Epidemiologic,Method, Epidemiological,Methods, Epidemiological
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012383	Romania	A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine. The capital is Bucharest.	Rumania,Roumania