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Marmot. M. G. (School of Public Health. U. of California, Berkeley. CA 94720). S. L. Syme, A. Kagan, H. Kato. J. B. Cohen and J. Belsky. Epidemiologic studies of coronary heart disease and stroke in Japanese men living in Japan, Hawaii and California: Prevalence of coronary and hypertensive heart disease and associated risk factors.Am J Epidemiol102:514–525. 1975.

A study of coronary heart disease (CHD) among Japanese migrants compared with Japaneseliving in Japan provided the opportunity to study factors possibly responsible for the high rates of CHD in America as compared with Japan. Comparable methods were employed in examining 11, 900 men of Japanese ancestry aged 45–69 living in Japan, Hawaii and California. The age-adjusted prevalence rates for definite CHD as determined by ECG were: Japan 5.3, Hawaii 5.2 and California 10.8/1000. For definite plus possible CHD …