ABSTRACT
The Alameda County Study is a prototype of community-based morbidity and mortality studies. The investigative team, of which Dr. Kaplan has been an integral member and now director, has utilized this cohort and existing data banks as extensively and productively as any group of investigators in the United States. In his chapter, Dr. Kaplan has reviewed for us in great detail the variety of risk factors for morbidity and mortality available for study, and has informed us where positive associations have been found, where no associations have been found, and what areas remain for future study. He has also reviewed a series of questions that provide a next step of analyses that, I am certain, he will pursue with great diligence.
