The Tromsø Study was initiated in 1974 in an attempt to help combat the high mortality due to cardiovascular diseases in Norway. This mostly affected men. In the mid-1970s, one in every five Norwegian men died of myocardial infarction before the age of 75, while the situation in Northern Norway was even worse.

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