Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology: A Themed Issue in Honor of Dr. Alessandro Menotti on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to honor Professor Alessandro Menotti on the occasion of his 90th birthdate in 2024. He was the youngest among the first generation of researchers involved in the Seven Countries Study (SCS) under the leadership of late Professor Ancel Keys. After 60 years of continued efforts worldwide he was the eldest of the third generation of SCS researchers and a supervisor of the study along a constant event coder for this reputed international investigation that set the foundation of cardiovascular epidemiology of heart diseases.

Professor Menotti published about almost 400 articles in peer-review international journals and 2 books in English and was the founder of cardiovascular epidemiology in Italy as a discipline and as an autonomous scientific area. MD and General Pathology Boards, Sapienza, University of Rome, I. Cardiology Board, University of Turin, I. Post Doc Certificates in epidemiology and biostatistics, London School of Hygiene, UK. PhD in Health Statistics. He held the following positions: Assistant, Division of Medicine, Government Hospital of Tripoli, Lybia; Research Associate, Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Assistant, Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, St Camillo Hospital, Rome, I; Research Director for Chronic Disease and Director, Laboratory of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health, Rome, I; part-time professor, Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Scientific Director Association for Cardiac Research, Rome, I; Consultant to the National Institute of Public Health of the Netherlands, Bilthoven, NL.

We encourage all colleagues and friends, but also deeply involved Researchers worldwide who devoted interest in cardiovascular epidemiology and had the opportunity to read and appreciate his important contributions in the field to contribute original scientific contributions and review articles or focused points of view to be grouped and published, after formal review, to form this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Paolo Emilio Puddu
Dr. Stefano Carugo
Dr. Xavier Humbert
Guest Editors

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