Stefan Rywik
68 Papers
659 Citations
Stefan Rywik is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Incidence (epidemiology). The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 68 publications.
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Papers
Sex difference in high density lipoprotein cholesterol in six countries.
Clarence E. Davis,Diane H. Williams,Rafael G. Oganov,S.-C. Tao,Stefan Rywik,Y. Stein,J. A. Little +6 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the association between HDL cholesterol and biologic sex in 8,631 women and 10,690 men aged 45-54 years from six countries studied between 1972 and 1989 to find the sex difference was significant.
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Natural menopause and cardiovascular disease risk factors. The Poland and US Collaborative Study on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology.
Clarence E. Davis,Andrzej Pajak,Stefan Rywik,Diane H. Williams,Grażyna Broda,Tadeusz Pazucha,Sara Ephross +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that natural menopause is associated with higher levels of total and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol levels and is not associated with large changes in other risk factors in this sample.
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Poland and U.S. Collaborative Study on Cardiovascular Epidemiology Hypertension in the Community: Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension in the Pol-MONICA Project and the U.S. Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Stefan Rywik,Clarence E. Davis,Andrzej Pajak,Grażyna Broda,Aaron R. Folsom,Ewa Kawalec,O. Dale Williams +6 more
TL;DR: Hypertension prevalence is higher and blood pressure levels are less well controlled in Polish than in U.S. samples, which can be expected to contribute to opposing trends in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in the two countries.
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Rozpowszechnienie nadciśnienia tętniczego oraz skuteczność jego leczenia u dorosłych mieszkańców naszego kraju. Wyniki programu WOBASZ
Andrzej Tykarski,Anna Posadzy-Małaczyńska,Bogdan Wyrzykowski,Magdalena Kwaśniewska,Andrzej Pająk,Michal Tendera,Stefan Rywik,Grażyna Broda,Tomasz Zdrojewski +8 more
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Incidence and correlates of hypertension in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and the Monitoring Trends and Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease (POL-MONICA) project.
Stefan Rywik,O. D. Williams,Andrzej Pajak,Grażyna Broda,Clarence E. Davis,Ewa Kawalec,Manolio Ta,W. Piotrowski,Richard Hutchinson +8 more
TL;DR: Despite substantial differences in blood pressure levels and age-standardized hypertension incidence rates, the differences in incidence between Polish and US white men appear to be explained largely by differences in risk factors for hypertension.
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