John W. Farquhar

The American way of life need not be hazardous to your health

* The American Way of Life * What Went Wrong? * Achieving Self-Directed Change * Stress and How to Cope With It * Exercise * The Alternative Food Pattern * Weight Control * How ...

Evaluation of the echocardiogram as an epidemiologic tool in an asymptomatic population.

An asymptomatic adult population of 196 men and women was studied with the echocardiogram to derive age- and sex-specific "normal" values for a number of clinically used echocar...

ASSESSMENT OF HABITUAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BY A SEVEN-DAY RECALL IN A COMMUNITY SURVEY AND CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS

Abstract Assessment of habitual physical activity in epidemiologic and health education studies has been difficult A seven-day physical activity recall interview was developed a...

Effects of communitywide education on cardiovascular disease risk factors. The Stanford Five-City Project

Is there a Delay in the Plasma Insulin Response of Patients with Chemical Diabetes Mellitus?

We have compared the plasma glucose and immunoreactive insulin responses to oral glucose, intravenous glucose and intravenous tolbutamide of twenty normal subjects with those of...

Disassociation of the plasma insulin response from the blood glucose concentration during glucose infusions in normal dogs