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Why does Russia have such high cardiovascular mortality rates? Comparisons of blood-based biomarkers with Norway implicate non-ischaemic cardiac damage

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  • Olena lakunchykova Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maria Averina Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tom Wilsgaard Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hugh Watkins Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sofia Malyutina Novosibirsk State Medical University, Russian Ministry of Health, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation Research Institute of Internal and Preventive Medicine, Branch of Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yulia Ragino Research Institute of Internal and Preventive Medicine, Branch of Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ruth H Keogh Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alexander V Kudryavtsev Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Innovative Programs, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vadim Govorun Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Moskva, Russian Federation PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sarah Cook Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Henrik Schirmer Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Cardiology, Akershus University Hospital, Lorenskog, Norway Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anne Elise Eggen Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David A Leon Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Olena Lakunchykova, Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9019, Norway; oia000{at}uit.no
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lakunchykova O, Averina M, Wilsgaard T, et al
Why does Russia have such high cardiovascular mortality rates? Comparisons of blood-based biomarkers with Norway implicate non-ischaemic cardiac damage
J Epidemiol Community Health 2020;74:698-704.

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  • Received February 6, 2020
  • Revised April 13, 2020
  • First published May 15, 2020.
Online issue publication 
August 13, 2020

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