TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prugger, Christof
A1  - Heidrich, Jan
A1  - Wellmann, Jürgen
A1  - Dittrich, Ralf
A1  - Brand, Stefan-Martin
A1  - Telgmann, Ralph
A1  - Breithardt, Günter
A1  - Reinecke, Holger
A1  - Scheld, Hans
A1  - Kleine-Katthöfer, Peter
A1  - Heuschmann, Peter U.
A1  - Keil, Ulrich
T1  - Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Patients With Coronary Heart Disease : Results From the EUROASPIRE I, II, and III Surveys in the Münster Region
JF  - Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
N2  - Background: Target values for cardiovascular risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) are stated in guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. We studied secular trends in risk factors over a 12-year period among CHD patients in the region of Munster, Germany.
Methods: The cross-sectional EUROASPIRE I, II and III surveys were performed in multiple centers across Europe. For all three, the Munster region was the participating German region. In the three periods 1995/96, 1999/2000, and 2006/07, the surveys included (respectively) 392, 402 and 457 <= 70-year-old patients with CHD in Munster who had sustained a coronary event at least 6 months earlier. 
Results: The prevalence of smoking remained unchanged, with 16.8% in EUROASPIRE I and II and 18.4% in EUROASPIRE III (p=0.898). On the other hand, high blood pressure and high cholesterol both became less common across the three EUROASPIRE studies (60.7% to 69.4% to 55.3%, and 94.3% to 83.4% to 48.1%, respectively; p<0.001 for both). Obesity became more common (23.0% to 30.6% to 43.1%, p<0.001), as did treatment with antihypertensive and lipid-lowering drugs (80.4% to 88.6% to 94.3%, and 35.0% to 67.4% to 87.0%, respectively; p<0.001 for both). 
Conclusion: The observed trends in cardiovascular risk factors under-score the vital need for better preventive strategies in patients with CHD.
KW  - smoking-cessation
KW  - follow up
KW  - primary-care physicians
KW  - myocardial infarction
KW  - secondary prevention
KW  - clinical practice
KW  - European countries
KW  - drug therapies
KW  - life style
KW  - task force
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2012.0303
VL  - 109
IS  - 17
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Roth, Nicolas
A1  - Hacker, Herrmann Heinrich
A1  - Heidrich, Lea
A1  - Friess, Nicolas
A1  - García-Barroas, Enrique
A1  - Habel, Jan Christian
A1  - Thorn, Simon
A1  - Müler, Jörg
T1  - Host specificity and species colouration mediate the regional decline of nocturnal moths in central European forests
JF  - Ecography
N2  - The high diversity of insects has limited the volume of long-term community data with a high taxonomic resolution and considerable geographic replications, especially in forests. Therefore, trends and causes of changes are poorly understood. Here we analyse trends in species richness, abundance and biomass of nocturnal macro moths in three quantitative data sets collected over four decades in forests in southern Germany. Two local data sets, one from coppiced oak forests and one from high oak forests included 125K and 48K specimens from 559 and 532 species, respectively. A third regional data set, representing all forest types in the temperate zone of central Europe comprised 735K specimens from 848 species. Generalized additive mixed models revealed temporal declines in species richness (−38%), abundance (−53%) and biomass (−57%) at the regional scale. These were more pronounced in plant host specialists and in dark coloured species. In contrast, the local coppiced oak forests showed an increase, in species richness (+62%), while the high oak forests showed no clear trends. Left and right censoring as well as cross validation confirmed the robustness of the analyses, which led to four conclusions. First, the decline in insects appears in hyper diverse insect groups in forests and affects species richness, abundance and biomass. Second, the pronounced decline in host specialists suggests habitat loss as an important driver of the observed decline. Third, the more severe decline in dark species might be an indication of global warming as a potential driver. Fourth, the trends in coppiced oak forests indicate that maintaining complex and diverse forest ecosystems through active management may be a promising conservation strategy in order to counteract negative trends in biodiversity, alongside rewilding approaches.
KW  - climate change
KW  - colour patterns
KW  - global change
KW  - Lepidoptera
KW  - macro moths
KW  - specialists
KW  - time series
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-258731
VL  - 44
IS  - 6
ER  -