Post-trial mortality surveillance of the 12,300 participants still living at the end of active intervention in February 1982 continued through June 1998 under grant support (R01HL43232). Use of the National Death Index for mortality surveillance of the 361,662 men screened for the MRFIT continued thorough July 1998 under grant support (R01HL28715). Recent analyses focus on the relationship of dietary factors, such as sodium, during the trial with post-trial mortality. Papers are in progress on further predictors of diabetes mellitus; indicators of cardiovascular disease morbidity and risk of death; and prognostic importance of changes in indices of left ventricular hypertrophy and ischemia.