The survey of the following epidemiologic studies of "Institut fUr Arterioskle roseforschung" in MUnster was given: 1. Follow-up study to analyze longterm mortality after myocardial infarction and individual risk of death. 2. Secondary preventive study after myocardial infarction under the conception of mesenchymal suppression. 3. Prospective study to find out the predictive power of cholesterol sub fractions. 4. Study of old age probands. The advantage of our infrastructure of the epidemiologic work lies in the close connection to the clinical medicine, as the scientific planning and...