I greatly enjoyed reading the epidemiological article on coronary artery disease in Spain by Marrugat et al,1 but I was disappointed to observe that, although the authors explained some of the acronyms of the studies mentioned in the article, like IBERICA, REGICOR, and MONICA, they did not define PANES and PRIAMHO. I am not sure why the criteria were applied so unevenly. With the aim of keeping...

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i Acknowledgments iii List of Tables ix List of Figures xi List of Acronyms xv

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iii List of Figures iv List of Tables vi Acronyms vii Chapter