[Epidemiological study on coronary risk factors in a population of clerks in Parma. Methods of research and 1st results].

After a review of current literature, the AA. present the purposes and the methods of an epidemiological study on coronary risk factors in selected bank-clerks of Parma, in view to correlate the dietary factors, possible methabolic alterations, psychical behaviour, social and environmental position and coronary risk evaluated by electrocardiographic stress test. In this respect, the AA. report and discuss, as example of the reliability and validity of the investigative model followed, the preliminary results observed in the 274 subjects up to this time controlled.