%0 Journal Article %A Reinikainen, Jaakko %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Oskarsson, Viktor %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Biasch, Katia %A Brenner, Hermann %A De Ponti, Roberto %A Donfrancesco, Chiara %A Drygas, Wojciech %A Ferrieres, Jean %A Grassi, Guido %A Grimsgaard, Sameline %A Iacoviello, Licia %A Jousilahti, Pekka %A Kårhus, Line L %A Kee, Frank %A Linneberg, Allan %A Luksiene, Dalia %A Mariño, Joany %A Moitry, Marie %A Palmieri, Luigi %A Peters, Annette %A Piwonska, Aleksandra %A Quarti-Trevano, Fosca %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Sans, Susana %A Schmidt, Carsten Oliver %A Schöttker, Ben %A Söderberg, Stefan %A Tamosiunas, Abdonas %A Thorand, Barbara %A Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh %A Vanuzzo, Diego %A Veronesi, Giovanni %A Woodward, Mark %A Lekadir, Karim %A Niiranen, Teemu %T Regional and temporal differences in the associations between cardiovascular disease and its classic risk factors: An analysis of 49 cohorts from 11 European countries. %J European journal of preventive cardiology %V 31 %N 5 %@ 2047-4873 %C Oxford %I Oxford University Press %M DKFZ-2023-02389 %P 569-577 %D 2024 %Z 2024 Mar 27;31(5):569-577 %X The regional and temporal differences in the associations between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its classic risk factors are unknown. The current study examined these associations in different European regions over a 30-year period.The study sample comprised 553818 individuals from 49 cohorts in 11 European countries (baseline: 1982-2012) who were followed up for a maximum of 10 years. Risk factors (sex, smoking, diabetes, non-HDL [high-density lipoprotein] cholesterol, systolic blood pressure [BP], and body mass index [BMI]) and CVD events (coronary heart disease or stroke) were harmonized across cohorts. Risk factor-outcome associations were analysed using multivariable-adjusted Cox regression models, and differences in associations were assessed using meta-regression.The differences in the risk factor-CVD associations between central Europe, northern Europe, southern Europe, and the United Kingdom were generally small. Men had a slightly higher hazard ratio (HR) in southern Europe (p = 0.043 for overall difference) and those with diabetes had a slightly lower HR in central Europe (p = 0.022 for overall difference) compared with the other regions. Of the six CVD risk factors, minor HR decreases per decade were observed for non-HDL cholesterol (7 %K Cardiovascular disease (Other) %K Coronary heart disease (Other) %K Europe (Other) %K Risk factor (Other) %K Stroke (Other) %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %$ pmid:37976098 %R 10.1093/eurjpc/zwad359 %U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/285455